YouTube's crackdown on ad blockers expands to third-party apps

16 April 2024
Pretty soon there will be nowhere to watch ad-free YouTube if you don't subscribe to Premium.

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They are legally in the right to do this, but please please introduce an option for videos to be markled as "emergency" videos (IE: first aid videos of any kind). I dont have time to watch 30 seconds of ads when somebody is chocking..

    Hudinited, 16 Apr 2024And once YouTube becomes like movie services they're d... moreNah youtube is too much of a monopolly for them to take any significant hit buy enforcing this. Everyday users don't even use ad blockers in the first place.

      Hudinited, 16 Apr 2024And once YouTube becomes like movie services they're d... moreLOL. They're done? Look here. Everybody are willing to use hacked apps etc just to watch Youtube. People are hooked on it. Youtube is already way draconian with random DMCAs, yet people are still not leaving. Youtube will be here forever.

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        Revanced Extended Rex Patch still survive the attack, yey! happy happy (:

          potato4k, 16 Apr 2024And you just proved Google right. Users won’t stop using th... moreAnd once YouTube becomes like movie services they're done. Absolutely. They will leave space for a competition. So, they won't close any loopholes just yet or in next 5 years.

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            Phone Critic, 16 Apr 2024ReVanced only works on Jailbreak Phones (Rooted Phones) don... moreMay be you are not well informed. I m using revanced on unrooted phone

              At home using Opera and have zero ads in youtube,
              In work using TOR or Google chrome with Ublock origin, adblock plus and regular adblock and have zero issues with ads.

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                I personally don't mind ads on longer videos, but c'mon I'm getting ads before I can watch that old 30-second commercial uploaded to freaking youtube!

                  mitch, 16 Apr 2024Imagine that you dev an app, you let the user decide to pay... moreWell, it's the mindset of 12 year olds, which is the majority of users here.

                    Phone Critic, 16 Apr 2024I will and I m well prepared for that situation... This i... moreYeah... No

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                      Imagine that you dev an app, you let the user decide to pay either via subscription, or via ads. Said user doesn't want to subscribe or view the ads. What a wonderful world

                        I have absolutely no problem paying for Youtube Premium... the thing is, we still don't get privacy... Removing ads is not privacy.
                        Every Android phone, everything google is out there to kill our privacy.

                        Sorry to say, the entire internet movement is in hands of few big companies. I don't exist anymore as an opinion.

                        Everytime a government fines them, they extract the money by serving more ads. Now its getting alarmingly high.

                          Spanky, 16 Apr 2024It would have been decent if they had one ad every half an ... moreIn the end creators will suffer cause viewers tune out and dont visit that site anymore cause of the massive amount of ads they are forced to watch

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                            I was alive had a better quality of life before all this. App or no app I will live.

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                              Phone Critic, 16 Apr 2024ReVanced only works on Jailbreak Phones (Rooted Phones) don... moreLOL, that was 5 years ago

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                                notafanboy, 16 Apr 2024Fake news. Works perfectly fine on non-rooted phones. You j... moreExactly work smoothly .

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                                  The level of cognitive dissonance in the comments is alarming...

                                    It would have been decent if they had one ad every half an hour or so (like Spotify free), but YouTube has become completely ad-infested, like an overgrown weed. Nowadays, you ALMOST get more ads than the content which you are trying to watch. 😞

                                    And how come Google pushes this dramatic excuse that it’s the creators who suffer and don’t get paid, but completely forget to say that Google gets a hefty chunk of those ad revenues? What hypocrisy. 😒

                                      Phone Critic, 16 Apr 2024ReVanced only works on Jailbreak Phones (Rooted Phones) don... moreFake news. Works perfectly fine on non-rooted phones. You just need the correct version of MicroG.

                                        Koishi Komeiji, 16 Apr 2024Even YouTube cannot stop ReVanced's latest version fro... moreReVanced only works on Jailbreak Phones (Rooted Phones) don't lead people in Mislead Information

                                        Root and Jailbreak is Mandatory for the App
                                        Non Root or Jailbreak BLOCKS THE APP TO START

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