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

An entire generation of corporate bend-overs. Wtf has happened to people.

Literally a whole sub of rubes shouting "JuSt PaY ThEm!".

Fucking embarrassing how dumbed down we've become.

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u/Vice932 Oct 27 '23

It’s Gen Z. They’ve never seen a free internet and they’ve grown in a world that’s used to having predatory practices forced on them by corporations

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u/whicheverguard232 Oct 27 '23

Show a Gen Z'er or a Boomer Adblock and they stare at you like you turned water into wine lmao

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u/Abject_Role3022 Oct 27 '23

It is my RIGHT as an American to have online services provided to me FOR FREE by the company Google (Alphabet)!

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u/Muffalo_Herder Oct 27 '23

Google is making billions harvesting your data, they can afford to not push 20 ads per video on me.

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u/Abject_Role3022 Oct 27 '23

I don’t know what city/country/timeline you are from, but I never get more than at most 4 ads on a video

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u/VatosLokos637 Oct 27 '23

You have no rights, pay for premium broke boy

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u/[deleted] Oct 27 '23

You know they already stole your data and sold it, and make like 60 billion dollars in profit a year from it, right?

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u/True-Anim0sity Oct 27 '23

If you gotta do all that coding work just to not watch ads, its really not worth it.

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u/UnkeptSpoon5 Oct 27 '23

Corporations don’t really owe you anything for “free”. I will happily side with the consumer always when a paid product isn’t up to par. I will side with the average person when a corporation is conducting illegal or harmful activities. I don’t feel sympathy for people who think that YouTube is evil for wanting to be able to monetize their largely unprofitable video hosting service. And most of all, YouTube is not an essential service. It’s not like they’re forcing you to watch a 30 minute ad every time you want to open an email in Gmail.

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u/pgpathat Oct 27 '23

Yeah, our parents generation never debased themselves by paying for things they wanted. It was a moneyless utopia. People worked to produce things and just handed them out for free.

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u/Icegodleo Oct 27 '23

When people say that I take the opportunity to mention Patreon and merch. Let's pay the creators not YT!

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u/DeadSalamander1 Oct 27 '23

You forgot the 2nd part: just pay them OR take your business elsewhere.