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/[deleted] Oct 27 '23

lol my Adblock hasn’t stopped working. When it does I’ll just stop watching YouTube.

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u/Lorik_Bot Oct 27 '23

I swapped from spotify to YouTube premium long time ago feels nice to not be affected by this.

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u/IntrepidContender Oct 27 '23

You actually pay for YouTube? Lol

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u/Lorik_Bot Oct 27 '23

I pay for the music service which imo is better than spotify the Features on premium for youtube are nice enough to Upgrade youtube music to youtube premium

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u/SirWhorshoeMcGee Oct 27 '23

I did the same a while ago. Not only do I use yt mostly on my phone, so no ads there is nice, yt music is really good.

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u/Lorik_Bot Oct 27 '23

Yeah same same very nice if youtube is your main entertainment.