Bad news for me, I use youtube a lot with an adblocker and it's essentially ad-free. It's going to be a bad day for me when they start cracking down. It doesn't surprise me, but it's a bummer.
this post was submitted on 29 Jun 2023
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Not to worried, the cat and mouse game would probably catch up within a few weeks on the blocking side.
I wouldn't be so hopeful, Twitch has pretty much remained unbeaten and the only "ad block" solution I've found still gives a 30 second interruption of the stream, it just doesn't show the ad anymore. It's why I don't use the site anymore, even with Twitch Turbo as an option these days.
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Incidentally, I am also implementing a three strikes policy - as in I'll still using your website after seeing this shit three times.
If YouTube starts banning people for blocking ads, it'll finally be the push I need to move to PeerTube.
Peertube just doesn't have the content.
Stop showing 3-minute long k-pop music videos. Like, why is that even an ad? Do they think I am suddenly going to start listening to k-pop or something?
Also, stop showing gross medical stuff, like this is a cure for your foot fungus or look how much earwax is in this persons ear. Just the other day there was an ad about not being able to get an erection. I tried to report, it but I could not see where to do it. But it was pretty inappropriate.
I get ads on my iPhone and always skip them, so this will not really affect me, especially since I mostly use freetube on the desktop.
I'm sorry for youtube-addicted. On my part, I use it, maybe, twice per year, so I couldn't care less.
Me using youtube daily, to learn things (I enjoy engineering and educational content) I also use it to sleep with the help of ASMR
Ads during ASMR is going to ruin it, good thing ReVanced exists
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If you just watch videos and don't comment or upload, what's the point of a YouTube account?
Just subscribe to channels using RSS
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Is the account banned or the IP? FYI, I don't really login to use YouTube. I mostly use RSS to subscribe to a channel.
or maybe they'll use browser fingerprinting and other hints to try and suss out who the 'bad' users are
Then you just use a browser that randomize fingerprints.