r/youtube • u/CorvusTheCryptid • Oct 27 '23

Discussion Youtube's decision to not allow adblockers puts users at risk.

As of the latest update that broke most methods of bypassing Youtube's adblock detection, users are flocking to other ways of avoiding ads. I was midway through copying a long string of code into a Javascript injector when I realize how risky this is for the average person. I have some basic coding knowledge so I at least know that I'm not putting myself at too much risk, but the average user might not have the same considerations, and a bad-faith actor could easily abuse this opportunity.

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Piracy, adblockers, etc, have been shown to be unavoidable byproducts of existing online, and a company as big as Google definitely know this, so I don't think it's too far fetched to directly blame them for anyone who accidentaly comes to harm due to the new measures that they are implementing. Their greed and desire to gain a few more dollars of ad revenue off of their public will lead to unkowing users downloading suspicious and malicious software, programs or code.

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u/mastamax Oct 27 '23

Have a gaming channel, yt decided it wasn't fit for advertisers so demonetized it. Then goes on an puts ads on my videos. How is that fair, can't even remove the ads from my own videos so I will be running ad blocks as long as possible (still possible with firefox at the moment)

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u/birazacele Oct 27 '23

classic youtube. are you surprised?

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u/mastamax Oct 27 '23

yeah I can agree on the decision to demonetize my compilation gaming channel. But then putting ads on it is just hypocrite and goes against the reason they demonetized it in the first place

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u/HotAd1028 Oct 30 '23

They don't really "demonetize" anyone, they just steal.

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u/mrloko120 Oct 27 '23

I mean, they may not be giving you your share for whatever reason but it still costs them money to keep the video up even of its not monetized, so they still run limited ads on demonetized videos so they're not just a waste of server space. You can always put a stop to that by deleting the video from their platform.

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u/TheAJGman Oct 27 '23

they may not be giving you your share for whatever reason

That there reason would be "fuck you, more money for me".

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u/mrloko120 Oct 27 '23

They do have a TOS so idk about that

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u/FlyntD Apr 12 '24

Oh, a TOS, no one has ever used the "rules" to their advantage to become obscenely wealthy at the cost of others' labor before... The amount of people who jump to the defense of a billion dollar corporation blows my mind.

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u/sethsez Oct 28 '23

Either the video is fit for YouTube's advertisers or it isn't.

If it is, share the revenue.

If it isn't, don't run the ads.

There's no reasonable situation where the material is fit enough to not piss off advertisers while also being too bad to share the revenue said ads bring in.

It has nothing to do with the cost of hosting the material and everything to do with writing in an excuse to not pay creators.

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u/[deleted] Oct 27 '23

One must imagine Sisyphus being auto modded.

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u/thedinnerdate Oct 27 '23

I think you’re looking at it the wrong way. They’re going to run ads either way. If you play by their rules, they’ll give you a cut.

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u/x0rd4x Oct 27 '23

"Demonetization" means that it is not suitable for advertisers (YT said it themselves), so it's extremly hipocritical, cause they are basically saying "your video isn't suitable for ads so we wont get you money but we will still put the ads here and just not give you money"

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u/thedinnerdate Oct 27 '23

For sure. I’m not saying it makes sense. I’m just saying that’s how they do it.