YouTube is getting serious about blocking ad blockers

www.theverge.com YouTube is getting serious about blocking ad blockers

YouTube wants users to allow ads or sign up for Premium.

YouTube is getting serious about blocking ad blockers::YouTube is cracking down on ad blockers. In a statement to The Verge, YouTube’s Christopher Lawton says the company has launched a “global effort” to urge people to allow ads on the platform.

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Uninstall Chrome (includes Edge, Brave, Vivaldi & many more) and replace with Firefox plus uBlock Origin

Problem solved
- I personally prefer LibreWolf (Firefox based)
  
  I think we should stop sending people to alternative "Firefox based" browser that will likely break compatibility even more than it is broken on Firefox. It will only frustrate the user and send him back to random chromium based alternative like brave. Firefox default privacy settings are more than enough for the regular user.
  
  I’ve seen LibreWolf mentioned a few times. What’s the difference between the two?
  
  My rule: if it's not in my distro's apt repository, it's too niche to use. If you want folks to use Librewolf, package it.
  
  There's also Palemoon (Firefox cringe)
- Why the recommendation for Firefox in this matter since ublock is promising support for multiple browsers?
  
  Because Google broke how websites load in Chrome specifically to destroy adblock. They can punch holes in any adblocker that uses the Chromium web rendering engine. However Firefox does not use any Chromium code and still works the way it always has. uBlock (use uBlock Origin instead) will likely still work somewhat on Chorme, but would be helpless to block some ads.
  
  Installing adblocker on Chrome is kind of like putting on a rain jacket once you're already wet.
- It doesn't solve the problem they still throw a warning every three videos. Brand new Firefox install with only u block. Both at latest version you block updated daily
  
  Purge cache and update, it's that simple.
Hmmm, weird.

Anyway, cross-posting one of my favorite random comments from some other cool person I saw in a thread the other day :

Android :

LibreTube

NewPipe

NewPipe x SponsorBlock

BraveNewPipe

Grayjay

iOS :

Yattee with this guide

Web :

Piped

Invidious

ViewTube

Tubo

Desktop :

FreeTube

TV :

Android TV - SmartTubeNext

Apple TV - Yattee with this guide
- This is awesome! Thanks for sharing!
  
  I'd like to add onto this and mention this app that I found while trying out the Android apps you listed. It's called PipePipe
  
  https://github.com/InfinityLoop1308/PipePipe
- This guy needs a medal
- Nice to see that other people find the list I put together useful
- And Playlet if you use a Roku or Roku TV 😉
All this accomplishes is doubling down my resolve to never give youtube a penny
Cable, its cable now.
YouTube wants users to allow ads or sign up for Premium.
- Youtube wantses, Youtube don't getses. Just like Gmail wantsed and I moved to another email provider. They want the money to stop shoving the ads, but still keep the tracking going. Well, I'm the product or the customer, I can't be both.
And I'm serious about keeping Revanced updated ☺️
- And uBlock Origin
I switched my VPN to Moldova and I haven't seen a add, some of these small countries it's not worth it to have ads.
- Ideally we would have an ad blocker that interacts with the ads themselves in background.
  
  You mean something like AdNauseam?
Youtube doesn't even serve ads to me if my useragent is a crawler.
- Oh, interesting.
  
  Care to share the string?
Pretty soon we're going to need an adblock blocker blocker
- Ublock origin has it already, it's been a few years now. I think it just blocks the JavaScript code that checks if the ads are being played (not sure though)
This is the best summary I could come up with:

YouTube is broadening its efforts to crack down on ad blockers.

The platform has “launched a global effort” to encourage users to allow ads or try YouTube Premium, YouTube communications manager Christopher Lawton says in a statement provided to The Verge.

YouTube confirmed that it was disabling videos for users with ad blockers in June, but Lawton described it as only a “small experiment globally” at the time.

Over the past several weeks, more users with ad blockers installed have found themselves unable to watch YouTube videos, with a post from Android Authority highlighting the increase in reports.

YouTube has made several changes to the way ads operate on its platform this year.

YouTube is likely hoping that its lengthy ad breaks drive more users to sign up for its ad-free YouTube Premium subscription, but a $2 price hike and the discontinuation of its cheaper Premium Lite plan might make the option less attractive.

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Christ we know already. Bitch bitch ads bitch bitch privacy bitch bitch firefox ublock origin bitch bitch. There are other things happening in the world of technology.
- Submit some posts yourself then instead of bitching!
  
  Hey did you know that YouTube is blocking users who have ad blockers?

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