YouTube does not allow ad blocking ... sort of
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A few months ago it was reported that YouTube was "experimenting with a new feature" that would prohibit ad blocking. And I did encounter this message a couple of times:
Recently, I noticed that going to YouTube results in a completely blank page -- but only if I am logged into Google. If I am not logged in then everything works normally and there is no complaining about ad blocking.
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Last night I was watching some documentary video on YouTube and just as the guy in the video shifted from one leg to the other in preparation for his own embedded sponsorship spiel, YouTube interrupted the commercial for a commercial.
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@da-Doctah said in YouTube does not allow ad blocking ... sort of:
YouTube interrupted the commercial for a commercial.
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@da-Doctah said in YouTube does not allow ad blocking ... sort of:
Last night I was watching some documentary video on YouTube and just as the guy in the video shifted from one leg to the other in preparation for his own embedded sponsorship spiel, YouTube interrupted the commercial for a commercial.
Counterpoint: If they're going to insert an ad break anyway, it's better for them to do it right before the guy goes to his own ad than to interrupt the flow of the show.
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@Gern_Blaanston Cannot confirm. I appear to be logged in into Google and it still works with uBlock Origin active and blocking ads.
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@GuyWhoKilledBear said in YouTube does not allow ad blocking ... sort of:
@da-Doctah said in YouTube does not allow ad blocking ... sort of:
Last night I was watching some documentary video on YouTube and just as the guy in the video shifted from one leg to the other in preparation for his own embedded sponsorship spiel, YouTube interrupted the commercial for a commercial.
Counterpoint: If they're going to insert an ad break anyway, it's better for them to do it right before the guy goes to his own ad than to interrupt the flow of the show.
I've heard that this is intentional on the part of the ad buyers. They can purchase one uninterrupted block or two smaller chucks. Or in principle up to 4 small blocks? Maybe? And either run a different ad in each block or create two that "chain". Probably cheaper to get two blocks on either side of a bigger block than one big one. Or something. Marketing is weird and convoluted and nefarious.
And I can't repro the issue personally either, signed in with u block origin. I think. Don't see ads, don't get blocked.
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Haven't seen this yet. ublock origin.
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I will point out at this juncture that I am likely
because I actually pay for premium.This way I only get the embedded ads, I don’t get weird popups and I can feel all righteous that “if a method of supporting content I care about came up that was a payment for ad-free content, I’d take it” and I can say I actually do.
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@PleegWat said in YouTube does not allow ad blocking ... sort of:
Haven't seen this yet. ublock origin.
I am also using uBlock Origin (Firefox).
If I am logged into Goog, and go to: https://www.youtube.com/
I get this:
If not logged in, I get this:
Oh well, a minor annoyance.
As an experiment a couple of months ago I left my browser open to YouTube and then left for a few hours. When I returned, uBlock's counter of things it had blocked was over 1,000 (once it reaches 1,000 it no longer gives an exact number and just says " >1k ".
YouTube can just fuck off if they think I am going to disable uBlock.
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@Gern_Blaanston I've got a youtube tab listing 22k items blocked
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@PleegWat said in YouTube does not allow ad blocking ... sort of:
@Gern_Blaanston I've got a youtube tab listing 22k items blocked
