YouTube tries to kill ad blockers in push for ad dollars, Premium subs

mateomaui, 6 months ago

Not surprising that the Verge staffer doesn’t seem to know how to set up a blocker.

ron, 6 months ago

if you can’t understand that they are only being informative it’s not my problem.

mateomaui, 6 months ago (edited 6 months ago)

Hey look, another new troll account with a single comment.

Not sure what your idiot response is on about, but I was referring to this

for one Verge staffer, YouTube now fully blocks them nearly every time

Strit, 6 months ago

I’ve seen this happen, but it’s only sometimes.

So maybe my adblocker is updating to work around this block of adblocking somehow.

leo, 6 months ago

Supposedly Firefox + uBlock Origin will get past the block more often than not. I don’t use Youtube enough to give any meaningful info on it, though.

Google is apparently fuzzing who this affects.

spacecowboy, 6 months ago

This has been going on for ages already, why do people keep posting this crap

LoafyLemon, 6 months ago

It's been a month, certainly not ages, unless you're an infant.

spacecowboy, 6 months ago

A month in the modern media climate is a really long time when it comes to a “story”. News moves fast.

rifugee, 6 months ago

This article was written just last week and it offers no new information. You have to admit that it is late to the party. Is the reporter going to next post an article reporting that there is fighting in Israel?

NightOwl, 6 months ago

Has it been significant? I figured people using ad blockers are in the minority and most don’t even know how to install it, so mainstream users are either fine with ads or pay for premium.

And then those who installed Adblocker themselves trend towards being more willing to tinker, so using ublock and updating or pushed to accountless options like freetube and newpipe.

kakes, 6 months ago

…is this still “news”?

ackzsel, 6 months ago

No it isn't, but Google has ways to bump headlines with their name in it : )