YouTube steps up fight against ad blockers again
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Re: YouTube steps up fight against ad blockers again
#2I'm glad there's enough bureaucracy inside Google to make these measures roll out slowly with long breaks between changes. It gives the add blockers enough time to update their blocks, before the anti-blocking measures even make it out to all users.
Re: YouTube steps up fight against ad blockers again
#3I wonder what the end goal is for Youtube. I doubt they have one, and they're just doing this on instinct/reflex. Not to mention they probably wouldn't have seen a need to to this as much if they didn't go down the path of shoving more and more ads down people's throats.
If Youtube stops working with uBlock Origin, I'll just download the videos wholesale and watch them that way instead, and I doubt there's a realistic way to completely block that, and there will be/already is a large community of people who are willing to make that experience as smooth as it can be, if need be. I don't see an end that works out significantly worse for adblockers in the long run, so everything in the short term is just busywork.
Re: YouTube steps up fight against ad blockers again
#4I wonder what the end goal is for Youtube. I doubt they have one, and they're just doing this on instinct/reflex. Not to mention they probably wouldn't have seen a need to to this as much if they didn't go down the path of shoving more and more ads down people's throats. If Youtube stops working with uBlock Origin, I'll just download the videos wholesale and watch them that way instead, and I doubt there's a realisti…
Long term, a pipeline is needed to rip from YouTube and then torrent seed with magnet links per video ID (which your browser could then lookup and expose with an extension when surfing YouTube).
Re: YouTube steps up fight against ad blockers again
#5I wonder what the end goal is for Youtube. I doubt they have one, and they're just doing this on instinct/reflex. Not to mention they probably wouldn't have seen a need to to this as much if they didn't go down the path of shoving more and more ads down people's throats. If Youtube stops working with uBlock Origin, I'll just download the videos wholesale and watch them that way instead, and I doubt there's a realisti…
ive said this before, when your [x] depends on people watching videos, you have to let people actually watch videos. its a corner youtube painted itsself into long ago, and means only so many ads can be shown, and videos must be of a minimum quality otherwise or the platform will implode.
Re: YouTube steps up fight against ad blockers again
#6I wonder what the end goal is for Youtube. I doubt they have one, and they're just doing this on instinct/reflex. Not to mention they probably wouldn't have seen a need to to this as much if they didn't go down the path of shoving more and more ads down people's throats. If Youtube stops working with uBlock Origin, I'll just download the videos wholesale and watch them that way instead, and I doubt there's a realisti…
The end goal is probably some low level employee who is trying to justify their job or push for a promotion. The gain for them is a lot smaller than the negative for everyone else - but it is their own gain.
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#7The article was written more than two months ago..
Re: YouTube steps up fight against ad blockers again
#8I wonder what is the proportion of users using an adblocker
I saw around me that many people are fine with ads, so I don't think it's much of a problem for YouTube
I read that people with either adhd or in the autism spectrum cannot tolerate ads.
Re: YouTube steps up fight against ad blockers again
#9I wonder what the end goal is for Youtube. I doubt they have one, and they're just doing this on instinct/reflex. Not to mention they probably wouldn't have seen a need to to this as much if they didn't go down the path of shoving more and more ads down people's throats. If Youtube stops working with uBlock Origin, I'll just download the videos wholesale and watch them that way instead, and I doubt there's a realisti…
Long term, a pipeline is needed to rip from YouTube and then torrent seed with magnet links per video ID (which your browser could then lookup and expose with an extension when surfing YouTube).
perfect use case for webtorrents
Re: YouTube steps up fight against ad blockers again
#10I wonder what is the proportion of users using an adblocker I saw around me that many people are fine with ads, so I don't think it's much of a problem for YouTube I read that people with either adhd or in the autism spectrum cannot tolerate ads.
"I read that people with either adhd or in the autism spectrum cannot tolerate ads." where you read that?