YouTube's new anti-adblock measures

Post by exegete » Sat, Jun 21, 2025, 9:29 PM UTC

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Steel-manning the argument, near where I live, it's not that uncommon to see small to moderately sized advertisements along the road, such as a sign outside/near the entrance of a farm that's selling eggs, meat, etc. I am wholly unopposed to this. In fact, I'm very supportive of this, and used them to find a farm to buy local honey from. Whereas the stereotypical massive slabs whose advertisements get wallpapered on,…

In Washington state, the law is that signs along the highway have to be things you can actually purchase in the same property. I think that rule helps strike a decent compromise: Adjacent local businesses can draw attention to themselves, but it blocks the business-plan of erecting a forest of billboards to auction off, flogging cell-phone providers or prescription drugs etc. https://app.leg.wa.gov/rcw/default.aspx?c…

Post by [deleted] » Sat, Jun 21, 2025, 9:33 PM UTC

dylan604 wrote: post #246

akersten wrote: post #209

Thank you for your important work fighting this battle, it must be exhausting. The more Google insists on forcing advertising on us, the more we should look closely at the wildly inappropriate and downright scammy ads they are hosting. If they can't leave well enough alone and look the other way on ad blocking, (which is the only way to avoid exposing myself and family to these dangerous ads), they need to be under a…

> we should look closely at the wildly inappropriate and downright scammy ads they are hosting This is one of the things that kills me. Even in broadcasting TV, you get typical :15, :30, :60 ads with the occasional :45 or longer :90. The ad pods are also defined so that you get a set number say something like 3:00 max. YT has scammy ads where if you are just trying to let something stream in the background while you…

Post by redml » Sat, Jun 21, 2025, 9:38 PM UTC

dbbk wrote: post #893

UltraSane wrote: post #97

I have every right to try to block YouTube ads and YouTube has every right to try to defeat whatever I do.

They could very easily just ban ad blockers from the Chrome extension store, but they haven't

Post by layman51 » Sat, Jun 21, 2025, 9:58 PM UTC

lcnPylGDnU4H9OF wrote: post #414

The primary thing that makes advertisements disagreeable is their irrelevance. That’s not to say whether or not the advertisement is for a product or service for which the viewer is interested in purchasing but how it relates to the context in which it is viewed. People complain about billboards next to a countryside highway because it is entirely irrelevant to driving through the countryside. Actual complaints may b…

Post by [deleted] » Sat, Jun 21, 2025, 10:15 PM UTC

motoxpro wrote: post #430

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I'm barely sure that the long term strategy of YouTube is "more ads". The premium account won't be always ads free

This is a big misunderstanding of the business model. The price might go up, but there will always be a tier with no ads.