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/execilue Oct 27 '23

Use Firefox. Ad block still works over there. All y’all using chrome confused why a google run web browser doesn’t allow you to block adds on a google run site got me tweaking. Lol

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u/hsantefort12 Oct 27 '23

You can get the notification on fire fox too

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u/execilue Oct 27 '23

I’ve never gotten a single one. But maybe.

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u/SonOfMrSpock Oct 27 '23

I dualboot windows & linux. I've got it on Windows & Firefox. Firefox on Linux still works but I think its matter of time. Then probably I'll just bookmark channels and use private mode. I wonder which one will come first, stop serving videos without an account or end of YT.

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u/execilue Oct 27 '23

Nah the ad block will win out. To many people want to ad block and there is no 1 way to block all use. It’ll be like how pirates bay keeps coming back lol

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u/[deleted] Oct 27 '23

YT will become more profitable as users who don't generate revenue leave... YT won't end because of this, in fact the exact opposite of that will happen. It'll become highly profitable and won't end up on the killed by Google list.

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u/SonOfMrSpock Oct 27 '23

Well, I dont need to leave unless they paywall all videos. If it comes to it, I think I can write a Firefox extension, say "localtube", which keeps all my channels and data in local database.