≈Vanuckle 2,135 Posted October 30, 2023 Share Posted October 30, 2023 Now that Youtube has created their new anti-ad blocking policy, I am finding the platform much less engaging to use. They will now warn and then block you from watching video content if you continue to use ad-blockers on videos. How are you handling this policy change? What are you now doing to get around ads? Will you use youtube less if you're forced to sit through multiple 30 second ads just to watch a 4 minute video? Quote Trevor#1700 | @Vanuckle Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adam_ 1,032 Posted October 30, 2023 Share Posted October 30, 2023 ad bad Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
≈Flukejiver 1,182 Posted October 30, 2023 Share Posted October 30, 2023 i started to watch videos a lot less tbh Quote Spoiler Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RitualSudoku 10 Posted October 30, 2023 Share Posted October 30, 2023 Watching youtube isn't that bad on desktop since uBlock Origin but viewing on phone/tablet or PlayStation is annoying af Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tika191 1,099 Posted October 30, 2023 Share Posted October 30, 2023 def watching less vids, super annoying especially on longer vids with multiple ads lol 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vanzant 1,380 Posted October 30, 2023 Share Posted October 30, 2023 Didn't know you could block it Quote Not sure if you heard. I was leader of The BlacKnights. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Isndar 227 Posted October 30, 2023 Share Posted October 30, 2023 Its a little bit annoying where they want to us to force buy Youtube Premium But for me, as long its on the desktop Im good, I can skip whenever they allow to skip the 5sec ad but if youre watching on Mobile...godamn what a turn off... Quote OTP | Barrow Slayerz | RIP Peck 🇲🇾 Spoiler Walk Here Isndar (level-126) / 3 more options Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wee Man 1,346 Posted October 30, 2023 Share Posted October 30, 2023 Keeping up to date with ublock origin is working fine for me. Quote [32,900,047] Wee Man#0028 | @ZybezWeeMan | Wee Man Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ace 632 Posted October 30, 2023 Share Posted October 30, 2023 Fighting it of course. I used to use an alternate app for android(or jailbroken iphones) called YouTube Vanced which had built in adblock + other features for youtube. For the past 6+ months the app would break every other day. Now they're trying to do the same to adblock plugins for browsers, but you just keep everything up to date. I would understand if the ad money was going back into the platform, but we all know that the vast majority of content creators on there aren't getting shit so obviously I'm going to keep fighting it. Quote Spoiler Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
@Brian 2,802 Posted October 30, 2023 Share Posted October 30, 2023 I only really watch youtube on desktop so I'm able to block ads still with ublock, so it hasn't effected me. I don't watch on mobile due to the ads, though its not hard to block them there either Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Juri 486 Posted October 30, 2023 Share Posted October 30, 2023 Fuck ads. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joni 235 Posted October 30, 2023 Share Posted October 30, 2023 7 hours ago, Tika191 said: def watching less vids, super annoying especially on longer vids with multiple ads lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin 207 Posted October 30, 2023 Share Posted October 30, 2023 havent had a big issue on desktop yet Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
@The End 2,066 Posted October 30, 2023 Share Posted October 30, 2023 If you turn your adblocker off and on again it works again, then likely breaks in few days and rinse/repeat. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sora 56 Posted October 30, 2023 Share Posted October 30, 2023 Updated uBlock Origin filter and good to go. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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