This marks the moment Google officially decided it didn’t know how to innovate any longer, and that it’s time to grab all they can to increase the bottom line.
Most technology companies follow this same cycle. When they’re in the innovation/disruption phase, there are less rules, they just focus on giving people the best experience. When they start stagnating, suddenly every cent matters.
The irony is that the profile type most likely to have an AdBlocker is the Silicon Valley engineer. They spend so much time online, that it would be really annoying to have ads.
I already found a fix: I use another YouTube client that displays the stream directly without showing the ads. My guess is more people will do that - unless the adblockers get better. If YouTube goes as far as protecting the streaming servers themselves with greater authentication, people will likely go elsewhere… TikTok… Insta… or the many other video platforms that have been popping up as a result of censorship.
But I am skeptical everyday people are willing to wait for ads - or pay for social media.
I feel like I'm in the minority that has zero problem paying for an ad-free experience. I get tremendous value out of YouTube in both professional and personal ways. I have a daughter who watches it often. Suppressing ads while supporting the service my family enjoys regularly seems like a no-brainer to me. And I never have to worry about them circumventing my ad blocker.
It's not the ads it's the tracking.
Paying for Youtube premium doesn't stop them spying on you.
> When you block YouTube ads, you violate YouTube’s Terms of Service.
I wish these corporate goons would drop their moronic drivel about a Terms of Service that means nothing and nobody reads and just write in the following style:
"When you block YouTube ads, we don't like it and will take technological steps to retaliate, which are within our right."
Just let me pay for youtube premium without bundling a music streaming subscription please. $14 per month for no ads is not worth it when I already pay $11 per month for my preferred music streaming service.
I feel like I need a hotkey for "Purge all caches && Update now" for uBlock Origin to keep up with this game of cat and mouse. YouTube has definitely already given me the "Use will be blocked after 3/2/1 videos" warning but it still keeps working time to time with ad-blocking.
"Hey, AI, connect to YT using my browser and account with adblockers turned off, then check the usual channels grabbing new videos, then strip out all advertising content and make them available to me and my friends over this p2p encrypted connection."
This morning while trying to understand laser eye surgery I got an ad for some supplement that's supposed to make my eyesight perfect.
It's not even that they try to sell you a product. They're straight up scamming you.
I'll use an Adblocker.
I've been eager for the YouTube effective monopoly to end... this self-immolation on their part is very similar to the collapse of the Soviet Union.... a tactical mistake that cascaded and surprised everyone.
I don't understand how adblock on a service like youtube work, without cooperation of youtube itself. I get it that you could easily blank the output when there is an add, and/or auto-close an add after the countdown, but how do you convince the service to continue streaming before the minimal advertisement time has past ?
I have such mixed feelings about this. I can't stand to waste the time on ads so I started using an alternative client that doesn't have any ads.
However, I do recognize that I've been using youtube for 15+ years without paying a cent or watching any ads - which is pretty unreasonable. No streaming service or television channel has ever been free with no ads. I can't really justify it.
And yet, I'm not willing to pay for youtube. It having been free all these years makes that a hard pill to swallow, somehow it just feels wrong now.
You can always choose not to use Youtube if you hate Ads so much.
I mean, if YouTube blocks me, then I just wont use YouTube...
I wonder which topic has had the most HN front-page dupes. This one is probably in the competition:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35892512
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37793375
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35883457
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37782171
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37106802
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37798150
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36277079
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37825887
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37866601
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35916592
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37869315
I saw the popup in FF, but interestingly YouTube doesn't seem to recognize Cromite's adblocker
If Ads supported creators I don't think they'd all be doing sponsored bits in their videos.
I was using Brave on my iPad the other day and got a notice about this. It didn't seem to affect functionality though. Perhaps they will clamp down in the future, and this is just a warning.
It is interesting that I have not yet seen any ad. Maybe becuse of extensions. Maybe because of no script, maybe becuse they have not roll out changes to my country. Huh.
FF, Win, uBo. I got "3 more videos till you'll be blocked" and that was it. "Watched" several more videos, but no more popups, no more nagging.
i use ublock and i got a popup on youtube telling me turn off adblock. i refuse to do so because i hate seeing ads and popups everywhere on the page of the youtube video. i use adblock software because it makes youtube easier to navigate and it looks cleaner
Extensions crippling 3...2...1
Would they be able to enforce this on Firefox or other browsers?
I honestly want to see how this whole thing is going to end eventually...I'm so curious!
TLDR: Thread where people earning software engineering salaries express frustration that they aren't entitled to services for free and must pay a reasonable fee for an ad-free experience.
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