Mobile Ad Blocker Will No Longer Stop YouTube's Ads
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#2> We want to emphasize that our terms don’t allow third-party apps to turn off ads because that prevents the creator from being rewarded for viewership, and Ads on YouTube help support creators and let billions of people around the world use the streaming service.
Ah yes, it’s all about the creators, you see. The money Google makes from it has nothing to do with it, no siree. As we all know, Google’s magnanimity always puts the creators first, and that is why every creator is so thankful to YouTube and no one has ever complained or criticised the platform. Hooray!
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#3I think between Invidious and Freetube there are enough alternative feeds to to Youtube these days.
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#4> mobile ad-blocking apps may result in buffering issues
That seems like a rather gaslighting passive aggressive approach.
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#5It's one of those things - they are totally in their right to do it, but I still think it sucks.
At the end of the day, both parties benefit: Youtube won't have to serve me videos for free and I'll gain back a bunch of free time.
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#6> mobile ad-blocking apps may result in buffering issues That seems like a rather gaslighting passive aggressive approach.
If the video content is loaded from the same place as the ads, and the blockers are blocking the source, that statement would make sense. I'm not sure it's gaslighting. Passive aggressive? Maybe but the point is to tell you not to do this so perhaps that's justified?
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#7Just use NewPipe. It's just a better Youtube client even if it had ads.
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#8I think between Invidious and Freetube there are enough alternative feeds to to Youtube these days.
Sadly Youtube has been actively blocking Invidious instances for a while now. These days it only works for me ~50% of the time.
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#9> We want to emphasize that our terms don’t allow third-party apps to turn off ads because that prevents the creator from being rewarded for viewership, and Ads on YouTube help support creators and let billions of people around the world use the streaming service. Ah yes, it’s all about the creators, you see. The money Google makes from it has nothing to do with it, no siree. As we all know, Google’s magnanimity alwa…
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?
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#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.