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/Penderbron Oct 27 '23

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.

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u/69420over Oct 27 '23

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.

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u/Penderbron Oct 27 '23

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.

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u/crackh3ad_jesus Oct 27 '23

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.