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.
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.
I use this one and it works perfectly fine. No interruptions
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.
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.
Incidentally, I am also implementing a three strikes policy - as in I'll still using your website after seeing this shit three times.
I think it's going to be a war between google and the developers of ad blockers (kind of like twitch and how they are fighting ad blockers too). And isn't chrome removing ad blockers in their extension manifest v3?
I guess if the worst happens, google could require everyone to have an account with a valid phone number to view videos and ban anyone using an ad blocker. But then there will be plugins made to mute ads automatically. There will always be a way around it.
Yeah screw that, I'll just not use YouTube.
It wouldn't be as bad if their website wasn't such a spammy f*ing mess with ads. Let's go back to the days when advertisements were just banner ads and the odd video sponsor segment.
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