YouTube Begins Blocking Users Who Use Adblock

Post by nickthegreek » Fri, Oct 27, 2023, 9:19 PM UTC

sva_ wrote: post #18

Aken wrote: post #10

I feel like I'm in the minority that has zero problem paying for an ad-free experience. I get tremendous value out of YouTube in both professional and personal ways. I have a daughter who watches it often. Suppressing ads while supporting the service my family enjoys regularly seems like a no-brainer to me. And I never have to worry about them circumventing my ad blocker.

Yeah but I have a problem with being bullied into paying them. It will just make me want to make their engineers life a pain by working on work-arounds.

Post by kdwikzncba » Fri, Oct 27, 2023, 9:19 PM UTC

louison11 wrote: post #17

This marks the moment Google officially decided it didn’t know how to innovate any longer, and that it’s time to grab all they can to increase the bottom line. Most technology companies follow this same cycle. When they’re in the innovation/disruption phase, there are less rules, they just focus on giving people the best experience. When they start stagnating, suddenly every cent matters. The irony is that the profil…

Post by Aken » Fri, Oct 27, 2023, 9:19 PM UTC

shapenamer wrote: post #26

Aken wrote: post #10

I feel like I'm in the minority that has zero problem paying for an ad-free experience. I get tremendous value out of YouTube in both professional and personal ways. I have a daughter who watches it often. Suppressing ads while supporting the service my family enjoys regularly seems like a no-brainer to me. And I never have to worry about them circumventing my ad blocker.

I've posted this a few times recently, but I used to pay for youtube premium, but it started showing me ads while using chromecast. The third time it happened I cancelled and went back to using ublock. I don't use the chromecast much because the ads are unbearable but I see exactly 0 ads ever on my pc. In short, I block ads because not only is it free, it also actually works. My guess is as soon as(if?) they manage t…

Post by myself248 » Fri, Oct 27, 2023, 9:20 PM UTC

izzydata wrote: post #16

Aken wrote: post #10

I feel like I'm in the minority that has zero problem paying for an ad-free experience. I get tremendous value out of YouTube in both professional and personal ways. I have a daughter who watches it often. Suppressing ads while supporting the service my family enjoys regularly seems like a no-brainer to me. And I never have to worry about them circumventing my ad blocker.

I'm probably also in the minority, but I think Youtube having a near monopoly in this space is bad for consumers and would prefer to see some alternatives. If by merely executing control over my own hardware to see only what I want is enough to actively harm them then so be it. I also have been subscribed to NebulaTV and Curiosity Stream for years.

Post by theduder99 » Fri, Oct 27, 2023, 9:21 PM UTC

nine_zeros wrote: post #20

Would they be able to enforce this on Firefox or other browsers?