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YouTube's plan backfires, people are installing better ad blockers
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this post was submitted on 04 Nov 2023
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if the platform decides which and where the ads will run during the video on page load, not during video pIay then I dont see how this could be blocked.
Anither thing they can do is enforce policy and start deleting/banning accounts blocking ads. I have some stuff on google account. Wouldn't be fun to have it deleted.
Since their pop-up already mentioned using AdBlock violating their TOS, I've started using a different Browserprofile with a dedicated Google account which I'll exclusively use for YouTube.
If there will be a slow weekend coming up, I'll set up a self hosted piped instance
Look at point 3. I explained this could still be skipped due to them having to visually indicate that it was an ad. This visual indication could easily be skipped by the local user.
As for them deleting accounts that blocked ads, how would they identify if someone blocked ads? Generate a secret key for every ad, that would be returned every time a user watched ads? This could easily be overcome, as an adblocker could simply extract this key and send it back to the server.
Trust me.... If there was a way to block ad blockers, the greedy capitalists would've done so a loooong time ago.
Ok I see. Why is Chrome store still having ublock origin there and others? I'd just remove it. But they let it be there for everyone to download.
Ok so this is how I think it works behind the scenes: the actual devs at Google don't give af whether ppl use adblockers or not. I think it's probably just the execs who come across stuff like this and tell the devs to "fix the problem". Look at how Vanced was there for a long time. Only when it started becoming too popular (especially when they released an NFT), did YouTube crack down on it.
The reason why ublock origin is still in the Chrome store is because the execs prolly don't know about it much. Maybe they are afraid that ppl would immediately hop onto Firefox if they did anything stupid like that? I dunno.... However, I'm pretty confident that they're going to do something stupid like banning ad blockers from the Chrome store quite soon. It would be quite hilarious to see the aftermath of that!
Google hates this one trick