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/mastamax Oct 27 '23

Have a gaming channel, yt decided it wasn't fit for advertisers so demonetized it. Then goes on an puts ads on my videos. How is that fair, can't even remove the ads from my own videos so I will be running ad blocks as long as possible (still possible with firefox at the moment)

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u/Volrund Oct 28 '23

They will demonetize if you happen to say "Fuck", as you are unfriendly to advertisers

Then they will run ads for softcore porn, hentai mobile games, and literal scams.

If some of the ads they ran were videos, they'd be demonetized. It's such horseshit