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Mobile Ad Blocker Will No Longer Stop YouTube's Ads

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Re: Mobile Ad Blocker Will No Longer Stop YouTube's Ads

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Post by bambax »

998244353 wrote: post #10

> In October, YouTube made it nearly impossible to watch its website while using an ad blocker. Did they revert that? I saw those for maybe a week. After that, I assume uBlock Origin had already worked around that. Probably the same will happen with mobile clients.

Same here. I don't know about mobile, but on desktop with uBlock Origin I see absolutely zero ads.

Re: Mobile Ad Blocker Will No Longer Stop YouTube's Ads

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Post by zinekeller »

Extremely misleading title, made worse with the HN autotrim. This is simply about YouTube de jure telling that ad-blocking is forbidden, which is just putting this previously-de facto policy in the legal realm. It's not even specifically for mobile devices: I'm not sure why the author of this article have linked it with mobile devices.

Re: Mobile Ad Blocker Will No Longer Stop YouTube's Ads

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Post by cmeacham98 »

avtolik wrote: post #12
BadHumans wrote: post #7

Just use NewPipe. It's just a better Youtube client even if it had ads. https://newpipe.net/

Does it show the same video adds as YouTube?

No, but this is entirely YouTube's fault as they don't offer any sort of API or method for third party apps to display ads.

Re: Mobile Ad Blocker Will No Longer Stop YouTube's Ads

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Post by michelsedgh »

fsckboy wrote: post #17
michelsedgh wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why can’t it be both? You don’t expect them to provide Youtube for free do you? Also if they don’t profit how do you want them to monetize the creators? Don’t get me wrong I hate the ads, but the problem is there has to be some kind of profits for them or for anyone else to run a platform and not just youtube no?

> You don’t expect them to provide Youtube for free do you? I don't expect for monopolists (of search, of ad, and also of video markets) to be given free rein to impose whatever terms they want. They provide me nothing for free, they are selling me

Which free rein? They enforce the one thing that pays them by forcing us to watch ads on their platform is not free rein. Also which monopolies? For ads theres bing, DDG, Kagi and many others same as Youtube, I think, they have become so big because they historically provided a better service and people chose them as the main one. I don’t get much of what you are saying.

Re: Mobile Ad Blocker Will No Longer Stop YouTube's Ads

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Post by _dark_matter_ »

bambax wrote: post #21
998244353 wrote: post #10

> In October, YouTube made it nearly impossible to watch its website while using an ad blocker. Did they revert that? I saw those for maybe a week. After that, I assume uBlock Origin had already worked around that. Probably the same will happen with mobile clients.

Same here. I don't know about mobile, but on desktop with uBlock Origin I see absolutely zero ads.

Firefox on Android has uBlock, and I see no ads. Just change the setting to ask to open in an external app.

Re: Mobile Ad Blocker Will No Longer Stop YouTube's Ads

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Post by throwaway5959 »

YouTube Premium (which avoids ads and still pays creators, plus offers downloads) is $14/month.

Put another way, let’s say the average Hacker News commentator makes $150k/year or $75/hour, that’s less than 15 minutes of work.

Just reeks of “I don’t believe tipping is fair to workers, that’s why I don’t tip.”

Edit: downvoted in less than a minute, haha

Re: Mobile Ad Blocker Will No Longer Stop YouTube's Ads

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Post by mmastrac »

throwaway5959 wrote: post #28

YouTube Premium (which avoids ads and still pays creators, plus offers downloads) is $14/month. Put another way, let’s say the average Hacker News commentator makes $150k/year or $75/hour, that’s less than 15 minutes of work. Just reeks of “I don’t believe tipping is fair to workers, that’s why I don’t tip.” Edit: downvoted in less than a minute, haha

Why are you conflating the extremely broken tipping culture/minimum wage system in the US and a multi-billion-dollar company's revenue strategy?
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