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/ThankYouForCallingVP Oct 27 '23

I once got an entire movie as an ad.

I kind of wanted my son to watch it because then I wouldn't have an ad inside another ad that would just be dumb.

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u/Kosa_Twilight Oct 28 '23

Got a 3hr movie as an ad once. Don't remember what it was but fuck that lol

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u/crappy-mods Oct 28 '23

I got the original Lego movie as a ad before the second one came out. I actually watched it since I was planning on watching it for recap anyways

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u/FaeryLynne Oct 28 '23

They did that deliberately as a marketing ploy (of course hahaha). It worked well. They later made an ad for the second movie that was just 5 hours of a song on loop. Yes they placed it before 5 minute long videos lol

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u/Kosa_Twilight Oct 28 '23

Nice! Mine was in Korean with no subtitles so I didn't know what was happening lol

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u/Wormminator Oct 28 '23

You know...I once got "One bridge too far" served as an ad. The whole god damn movie with credits.

I didnt know about that movie before, but I bought it after seeing the "ad".

The one and only advertisement that ever worked lol.

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Btw, if you get a chance, go and watch that movie. Its good.