"Ad Blockers are not allowed on Youtube" nonsense

[Mega Ultra Chicken]

If anyone got this message on youtube, you can ignore it completely. I bet they'll eventually force you to disable your adblocker, but it's not being enforced yet.

[Foxbyte]

I didn't want to switch browsers again but if Opera is chromium (I didn't know) and this is going to continue (it will) then I guess I ought to go back to Brave and if that doesn't work, Firefox (or some fork of it like Waterfox or such).

It started working again on Opera, probably just had to wait for the filters to get updated in response to youtube probably updating something. And on and on.

So, I moved back to Brave browser. Was pretty simple to import bookmarks and passwords..

[Chalupacabaras]

There's a few possible things y'all might be forgetting about.

1) Youtube installs a thumbprint file onto your device during the first time that device visits the website. It's a user ID for analytics, tracking and identifying device specs for various (but mostly legitimate) reasons. Other major tech companies do this too including Facebook, TwiX, Twitch, Patreon and Valve.

2) Windows 11 was developed with Android capability directly shoehorned in. So it's not really a Microsoft OS, it's a licensed Google product. This allows Google to directly verify YouTube's thumbprint file through your Microsoft license activation key.

3) YouTube, and the rest of Google's platforms, run on WordPress CMS from 2009. This means that they still rely on IE compatibility to do the background data analytics, user tracking, etc. Microsoft fully ended IE support in January 2023, but most browsers still have opt-out IE Compatibility Mode.

4) IE Compatibility Mode only blocks IE versions of the websites you visit, it doesn't actually block the IE processes running in the websites. For that, you'd have to muck through your computer's registry key and disable a crapton of Internet Explorer folder instances. Not difficult, just time consuming. There is a benefit, though... your machine will run a lot faster and colder without all those processes hogging your CPU.

5) Opera was bought by a Chinese company sometime around 2019, so it doesn't actually have privacy features and it's as secure as a screen door hatch on a submarine.

[Ganger]

Louis Rossmann explains it. Even though Louis is very pro-consumer, he explains the reasons behind youtubes move and gives the pros and cons for both sides.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DMaFH4KzOVg

[De Hollandse Ezel]

I remember when youtube was just that you - tube.
no monitisation, no adds, no accounts or logging in needed to post comments...
oh and downloading others videos or playing them in background was also totally possible without account.

when it was all just little guys.. posting their home videos none begging for likes or follows..
nobody earning a dime of all of it.

it was better than.

before greed.

[De Hollandse Ezel]

also : for each 30 second add vieuwed that recieves about 0.5 cent..
or 60 cent per hour wasted of my life

than should the ability to not get them not also be a much lower rate?

why gain more of people skipping adds than those vieuwing them?
offering people the option if they which to pay 60 cent or 1 hour vieuwing time is defendable..

bit charging 12 euro aka 20x as much to skip? thats hardly fair.

[sleeps]

ironically that's more tolerable than the ads itself... unless if it's a food ads :3

[( ( < < <🤖> > > ) )]

nothing worse than watching a advert then getting a youtube you dont want..

[metamec]

Chalupabaras původně napsal:

2) Windows 11 was developed with Android capability directly shoehorned in. So it's not really a Microsoft OS, it's a licensed Google product. This allows Google to directly verify YouTube's thumbprint file through your Microsoft license activation key.

To run Android apps on Windows 11, the Amazon App Store must be installed, and that requires WSL2 to be enabled. WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux) has existed since Windows 10, and is not even enabled by default in Windows 10 or Windows 11. Hyper-V must be enabled in the BIOS and that is not enabled by default on a great number of systems, so Windows would simply not install on many systems if Android capability (the way it actually works) was "directly shoehorned in".

After you have *optionally* enabled Hyper-V (BIOS) and WSL2 (OS), you *manually* install a Linux distro, the Amazon App Store (Android) or whatever*. It is absurd to suggest Windows is not really a Microsoft OS because of this optional component which is not enabled by default; which was developed primarily to integrate Linux support into Windows, not Android (the clue is in the 'L' part of the WSL abbreviation).

* Incidentally, the Google Play store cannot be installed with WSL2 specifically because of licensing reasons - so the statement that "it is a licensed Google product" takes on a whole new level of absurdity.

[RRW359]

I've never been a huge fan of adblocking on free websites, especially ones with a premium option, they are free because the ads pay for their administration costs and if you don't like those you can pay for premium. Watching it for free without ads just makes it worse for the people who either can't figure out adblock or chose not to use it since if it isn't profitable for sites to be free they will remove the free version some people rely on.

[Satsujinki]

Lol lol lol.. A year ago bfi already did recommend for these people to install ad blocker and guess what? Youtube decide to push so far as they lose their money lots.

https://www.pcmag.com/news/fbi-recommends-installing-an-ad-blocker-to-dodge-scammers

[Not Big Surprise]

RRW359 původně napsal:

I've never been a huge fan of adblocking on free websites, especially ones with a premium option, they are free because the ads pay for their administration costs and if you don't like those you can pay for premium. Watching it for free without ads just makes it worse for the people who either can't figure out adblock or chose not to use it since if it isn't profitable for sites to be free they will remove the free version some people rely on.

the argument becomes a bit less compelling when we're talking about a multimillionaire corporation

[( ( < < <🤖> > > ) )]

if i only buy and eat carrots... whats the point of me watching adverts for drumsticks

[Mr_Blank]

I’m gonna switch to an add blocker that I can have specific sites having ads on being allowed because I hate the idea of not allowing YouTubers to get paid via Adsense. That and the screen is annoying lol

[RRW359]

Not Big Surprise původně napsal:

RRW359 původně napsal:

I've never been a huge fan of adblocking on free websites, especially ones with a premium option, they are free because the ads pay for their administration costs and if you don't like those you can pay for premium. Watching it for free without ads just makes it worse for the people who either can't figure out adblock or chose not to use it since if it isn't profitable for sites to be free they will remove the free version some people rely on.

the argument becomes a bit less compelling when we're talking about a multimillionaire corporation

In my experience the bigger the corporation the less likely they are going to do stuff for charity. This isn't about the poor CEO's losing money, it's about them seeing more money in paywalls then ads and preventing the poorest people from having access to their stuff.

[( ( < < <🤖> > > ) )]

maybe mr beast can get all his mates to watch adverts all day