YouTube's anti-ad blocker campaign isn't a "small experiment" anymore

31 October 2023
It's now a full-on global crackdown.

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Rozay, 31 Oct 2023You guys are so cheap! Pay the creators the content you’re ... moreI'm paying them with my time. I don't want to get 2 30 second ads for a video that's less than 5 minutes long. By all means, enjoy as google shoves more and more unskippable ads down your throat and keep being a sheep. If I want to support a creator I will find other ways besides watching inappropriate, scam, garbage ads.

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    • Anonymous
    • tDI
    • 01 Nov 2023

    already gaining billions even without anti ad-block policy, now google want to double down on people using ad-block because they are so big people rely on it which spark big confidence on such move.
    but you know,, american stuff, always tend to reap as many profit as possible instead of staying stagnant and gain reliable number of profit, so nothing special, really.
    yet i can't wait to see either see youtube to fall to the very hole they dig, or gaining even more revenue from this.
    almost forgot: i've using adguard dns all the time, i did great job at blocking ads and suspiciously fail at blocking youtube ads, happened around one week ago.

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      • Anonymous
      • AJj
      • 01 Nov 2023

      CompactLover, 01 Nov 2023i made a few contents in YT. they just demotised it and i w... moreThey are making money on your content but don't want to share it with you by making some illogical self made policy.

        Anonymous, 01 Nov 2023Nonsense, no one forces anyone to publish anything on youtu... moreEditing content for 14 hours is work not everyone wants to be a slave for someone when you can work for yourself

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          • Anonymous
          • vGN
          • 01 Nov 2023

          Makes perfect sense. People need to support the service either by paying up (YT Premium) or by watching ads. No brainer.

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            • Anonymous
            • L6L
            • 01 Nov 2023

            Rozay, 31 Oct 2023You guys are so cheap! Pay the creators the content you’re ... moreNonsense, no one forces anyone to publish anything on youtube. They should find a proper job and not bother society with their bullshit.

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              • Anonymous
              • L6L
              • 01 Nov 2023

              The realistic truth is that Google and also YouTube are attacking and not respecting the privacy rights and the legally protected privacy of the users.
              The Google "Therms of Service" are, in Europe at least, against the law.

                They want us to pay, and they want to spy on us, and feed us ads. Can it get more sinister?

                How about we predict what Google will be after 10 years?

                Let me try: Google asks you to subscribe to their services or get left behind the competition, and they will handle everything we do- bill payments, other payments, etc etc. and ads will be there but non intrusive when you pay.

                  even without us paying they already made billions with our data...i hope there would be youtube alternative and google entirely..

                    Looks like Youtube and Google isn’t making enough money selling our data to 3rd party companies and advertisers. Now they have to shove 2 minute unskippable ads down our throats to make even more money.

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                      • Anonymous
                      • I2Y
                      • 01 Nov 2023

                      o.o, 01 Nov 2023logout YT account, clear cache, enforce No Tracking policy ... moreOr just delete youtube and don’t look back
                      These are private companies that won’t care until they start losing marketshare and money

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                        • Anonymous
                        • 3xs
                        • 01 Nov 2023

                        USE youtube clone apps... its free... u can find names on internet.... Dont let this warmonger Google and Youtube get our money

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                          • PRr
                          • 01 Nov 2023

                          logout YT account, clear cache, enforce No Tracking policy on browser to let Adsense ID retrieve out of target data. Never use YT app or Home app. Not on Android Auto, not even Bard in the future.

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                            • Anonymous
                            • 0BG
                            • 01 Nov 2023

                            Anonymous, 01 Nov 2023Well my ublocker still works, i just need to purge all cach... more*Youtube, not facebook, although Facebook is on the same path

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                              • Anonymous
                              • 0BG
                              • 01 Nov 2023

                              Well my ublocker still works, i just need to purge all cache and re-update filters from time to time (And in privacy mode i don't even need to do that, it always works). If it stops working, i'm switching to freetube and if it stops working too, i'm done with facebook.

                                i made a few contents in YT. they just demotised it and i was like, ok then. then i log using other acc and view the video i made only to get ads inserted in between. yo google wtf

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                                  • Underworld222
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                                  • 01 Nov 2023

                                  Rozay, 31 Oct 2023You guys are so cheap! Pay the creators the content you’re ... moreYou pay creators by donating directly to them not through YouTube Premium.

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                                    • Underworld222
                                    • x}j
                                    • 01 Nov 2023

                                    Newpipe!

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                                      • AnonD-1110896
                                      • nmP
                                      • 01 Nov 2023

                                      I had YouTube premium but they ban or censor all the creators I follow so why bother. if I use YouTube I just clear the browsing history and it works again

                                        UBlock Origin is a great Opinion... Works any browser extension