YouTube's Anti-Adblock and uBlock Origin

Post by matheusmoreira » Mon, Oct 30, 2023, 7:31 AM UTC

caconym_ wrote: post #465

matheusmoreira wrote: post #457

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> What part of my comment, specifically, is this responding to? The notion that detecting our adblocker and actually charging for content are equivalent. > Why? Because if they send us ads we'll delete them and there is pretty much nothing they can do about it.

> The notion that detecting our adblocker and actually charging for content are equivalent. Well then maybe you meant to respond to somebody else, because that's not something I said at any point. > Because if they send us ads we'll delete them and there is pretty much nothing they can do about it. This entire HN thread and the linked article are about how they are literally doing something about it, and it's working…

Post by skyyler » Mon, Oct 30, 2023, 7:34 AM UTC

codeTired wrote: post #450

wdb wrote: post #288

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YT Premium costs more than Netflix or Disney+. Quite pricey to get ad free Youtube videos and not as much content than normal streaming sites.

You are still served ads in videos. It sucks paying for premium and your content creators use 3 minutes of 15 minute video to promote “nordVpn”.

Post by radley » Mon, Oct 30, 2023, 7:37 AM UTC

amadvance wrote: post #534

eqvinox wrote: post #427

This is of course bringing up the discussion on the "morality" of Adblocking. I'd like to point out something that I don't think is getting enough attention. There was a point in the past where video platforms were competing, and by no means was it clear that YouTube would end up dominating this area to the point of being close to a monopoly. When YouTube won that race, they won it with a given set of parameters, inc…

I'm also a heavy user of ad blockers, but there is something to be said in defense of YouTube. Creators have the final decision on the ads shown. I have a YouTube channel, and I always disable monetization on all my videos, so no ads are ever shown on my channel. If you see an ad, it's because the creator decided to include one. YouTube is simply the platform that enables this choice.

Post by matheusmoreira » Mon, Oct 30, 2023, 7:41 AM UTC

CSMastermind wrote: post #373

daeros wrote: post #356

While it has ultimately come up in this discussion my honest input is most of the comments I see here evaded the elephant in the room of all of it which is that Google doesn't do a good enough job of vetting the people who advertise with it, its search engines have repeatedly allowed malware to slip through the cracks leading to people being exploited and nothing stops those same malware developers from serving up ad…

> YouTube is the one that feels "Entitled" to show me advertisements They show you advertisements in exchange for the free content they provide. You can just as easily not visit the website if you don't feel like the service they provide is worth the risk of being shown the ads they serve.

Post by Buttons840 » Mon, Oct 30, 2023, 7:42 AM UTC

amadvance wrote: post #530

Buttons840 wrote: post #369

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If ads are indistinguishable from the regular video, can't people just skip past them? Afterall, regular video can be fast-forwarded / skipped. I will tell my computer to automatically skip video that was originally marked as unskippable. If things really escalate, I will tell my computer to blank the screen and mute the audio when an ad is playing. I will do this with a keybinding, or maybe with an AI. This will be…

> I will tell my computer to blank the screen and mute the audio when an ad is playing. Indeed, but you'll still have to wait for the ad to play. YouTube can definitively win this race if they decide so.