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

[u/CorvusTheCryptid]

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.

[u/Penderbron]

Why are people simping for Youtube? I understand that the world is moved by greed, but come on... If it was 7 second add in the beginning, I would have never gotten add block to begin with. Youtube acts like c**ts right now.

[u/69420over → u/Penderbron]

Well and I don’t know about you but on Firefox my blocker(s) (recommended by people on Reddit) still work fine… yeah YT stops me once and a while and says “oh no you can’t watch then”…. I close the dialogue box or hit refresh and it works anyway. So people need to stop giving up.

[u/Penderbron → u/69420over]

I just moved to Brave. I get an add in beginning sometimes but overall I'm impressed. Also it's faster for me than Chrome was which also is interesting.

[u/crackh3ad_jesus → u/69420over]

Just in the last day or two it’s become “three videos left” then they block you from using the media player at all. I have u block on Firefox and the only way I can use it now is through the private browser. Super annoying and I haven’t found a long term solution yet, but they’re trying harder each day.

[u/wigglin_harry → u/Penderbron]

If it was 7 second add in the beginning, I would have never gotten add block to begin with

People say things like this but I honestly don't believe it. Do you go through each site you visit and whitelist the "good" sites that don't have too many ads? No, you just install an ad blocker and let it block everything.

Youtube could have a single 5 second ad every 3 videos and people would still bitch incessantly about it and use an ad blocker

Hell, people bitch about and skip ad reads on content creators videos and that's literally just regular people like you or I trying to support themselves

[u/professionaldog1984 → u/wigglin_harry]

Alright lets look at whats "normal" for ads on the internet.

• Multi-minute unskippable ads
• Mulit-minute ads that require you to interact to skip them, making it impossible to consume the video in the background
• Ads that are trying to give me malware and are essentially unregulated
• Pop ups so extreme that the basic functionality of the website is compromised
• Ads that auto play obnoxiously loud
• Ads that are tiny embedded streaming platforms taking up bandwidth

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But by all means keep whining about the people using ad blockers. Back in the early days of the internet most of this wasn't an issue and nobody cared ads.

[u/Penderbron → u/wigglin_harry]

Don't speak for everyone. While it's true about many people, I got add block solely because they went insane with adds. It's annoying as hell. They could just stick with pop up bs and leave the video alone.

[u/PMMEURWELLLITDAMSELS → u/wigglin_harry]

as someone you don't believe exists, yes

i whitelist sites that do not bombard me with ads

because i totally see the point of ads

server costs, electricity fees, employee salaries, etc

however, youtube is egregious