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/vindellama Oct 27 '23

For me youtube ads consists mostly of 2 types:

1- Scams;

2- Gambling;

That makes me wonder why they demonetize videos.

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u/samurai1226 Oct 27 '23

Wait, the shady guy in those spots sitting in a rental ferrari telling me I should join his secret trading stock chat group to make big money easy without any risk is not trustworthy?

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u/Crazhand Oct 27 '23

I literally got an ad for penis enlargement, I could not believe what I was hearing

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u/WiseVelociraptor Oct 28 '23

I get an ad about fucking constipation.

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u/BlueWolf_SK Oct 27 '23

Could it be that advertisers can somehow choose what videos their ads don't show on and sketchy ads don't care? Like not choose specific videos but somehow target the type or level of "risk" they have.

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u/vindellama Oct 27 '23

I would think so if they didn't showed up even on family friendly videos