YouTube intensifies fight against ad blockers showing pop-ups, and users are frustrated

[Rocky4040]

Yes I have been getting the you have an AD Blocker running blah blah blah for about 2 weeks now. I noticed today once it even stopped the video to the point I could not X out of the pop up they put in place meaning they tried to annoy me so much to sub to prem. I refreshed the page and the video played and I had no more pop ups for the rest of my day while on YT. I would not have an issue paying for premium if it was something like $4.99 CAD a month it would be worth it to me then. I am not about to pay $13.99 USD a month. I stopped Netflix when they reached $13.99 CAD a month and now they are even higher for prem sub something like $21 or $22 a month if you want their best.

 

[lripplinger]

I watch YouTube in a Privacy Window now in Firefox, as that was the only way I could watch, and still use Ublock. So far, it has been working well. I do have to sign into YouTube every time (which means telling the google account security notification on my phone that it is me), which is kind of a nuisance.

 

[havok585]

The only reason they show ads and these annoying pop-ups, is to make you sub to their platform.

How come in the past this was not an issue but as google got more greedy, they started showing ads in-video, just to mess with people watching. that is the most disgusting practice of all.

So adblockers are a welcome fight agains this practice.

Yes I have been getting the you have an AD Blocker running blah blah blah for about 2 weeks now. I noticed today once it even stopped the video to the point I could not X out of the pop up they put in place meaning they tried to annoy me so much to sub to prem. I refreshed the page and the video played and I had no more pop ups for the rest of my day while on YT. I would not have an issue paying for premium if it was something like $4.99 CAD a month it would be worth it to me then. I am not about to pay $13.99 USD a month. I stopped Netflix when they reached $13.99 CAD a month and now they are even higher for prem sub something like $21 or $22 a month if you want their best.

Get ublock origin + greasemonkey + filter anti-adblock killer

 

[Aaron Jones]

YouTube has ads? Huh. Okay.

 

[BakaRed77]

Youtube premium is a joke. The price should be like $3/month. I would be willing to pay that to avoid the ads because I use youtube a lot during the day. They need to reevaluate this issue. I promise I will stop using youtube before I watch their annoying ads.

 

[romiha]

"The rep added that using an ad blocker on YouTube is against the site's terms of service."

I looked over YouTube's terms of service a few minutes ago. I could NOT find any indication that using an adblocker is against the site's terms of service.

Anyone else note this?

 

[romiha]

Also, YouTube is part of Google. Google has at least 1 BILLION users. If 10 MILLION users complain about YouTube going after those who use ad blockers, that's only 1%. Not even a rounding error!!!

 

[VaRmeNsI]

Youtube premium is a joke. The price should be like $3/month. I would be willing to pay that to avoid the ads because I use youtube a lot during the day. They need to reevaluate this issue. I promise I will stop using youtube before I watch their annoying ads.

I think they are missing out a huge chunk of potential revenue by having the starter package so expensive, 720p max resolution, no ads, $1 per month, 1080p for $3 etc.

 

[kira setsu]

Sure it is annoying but no one is forcing you to buy it, or even listen to it... you can skip that part if you want. A lot of people like creators they watch and want to support them. This seems like such a small thing to complain about in the grand scheme of things, but that's just my little opinion.

that's how it always goes it seems, someone complains about something small, others say its no big deal, then we always end up here where the small problems have become so massive its essentially a cancer.

well whatever takes youtubes place, I wonder how long it'll last before a thousand cuts slay it too?

 

[Gastec]

More restrictions, more hand slapping, more paywalls! Block the ad-blocker! Least the "ecosystem of creators globally" becomes less "diverse". Ad-blocker-blocker FTW!

 

[nismo91]

Talking about revenue honestly I think the biggest problem with youtube is that they allow people to post long videos too easily. back then most entry creators were limited to shorter videos and that motivates them to do creative editing instead of rambling and rambling.

who the hell needs 10 hours sleeping noise when you have playlists. but no, youtube likes that kind of silly video because they can put as many ads as possible to increase revenue. instead of filtering creators into tier, I mean if you upload 1hour+ video everyday then you deserve to be charged a small fee.

now as a result the average users will have to watch shitty ads to pay for the bandwidth for those bandwidth hog videos.

 

[Dimitrios]

Maybe they should focus on censorship and bots.

 

[pitkin]

They frequently "demonetise" several channels I watch, so that "diverse ecosystem" argument falls flat on it's face.
As it stands I'm quite happy to "demonetise" them back.

 

[p51d007]

I've seen the pop up...but Adguard seems to be blocking it after doing a refresh of the page.

 

[Dimitrios]

I've seen the pop up...but Adguard seems to be blocking it after doing a refresh of the page.

I get a warning and I click close and the video stills plays.

 

[loki1944]

You mean Google and its chrome browser not youtube as some sort of independent entity. Adblocking youtube on Firefox still works fine; as does 4K downloader.

 

[RandomWAN]

"The rep added that using an ad blocker on YouTube is against the site's terms of service."

I looked over YouTube's terms of service a few minutes ago. I could NOT find any indication that using an adblocker is against the site's terms of service.

Anyone else note this?

They likely mean number 2 of the Permissions and Restrictions section: https://www.youtube.com/t/terms#c3e2907ca8

2. circumvent, disable, fraudulently engage with, or otherwise interfere with any part of the Service (or attempt to do any of these things), including security-related features or features that (a) prevent or restrict the copying or other use of Content or (b) limit the use of the Service or Content;

It's not like they properly enforce number 7, so I don't feel compelled to concern myself with ad blocking even if they did clearly spell it out.

7. misuse any reporting, flagging, complaint, dispute, or appeals process, including by making groundless, vexatious, or frivolous submissions;

They have so many other problems to address that they seem to ignore since it isn't directly their problem or doesn't affect them in any meaningful way, that I could care less about an unsustainable model catching up with them and I will happily continue to contribute to them losing money.

 

[brucek]

Talking about revenue honestly I think the biggest problem with youtube is that they allow people to post long videos too easily. back then most entry creators were limited to shorter videos and that motivates them to do creative editing instead of rambling and rambling.

who the hell needs 10 hours sleeping noise when you have playlists. but no, youtube likes that kind of silly video because they can put as many ads as possible to increase revenue. instead of filtering creators into tier, I mean if you upload 1hour+ video everyday then you deserve to be charged a small fee.

now as a result the average users will have to watch shitty ads to pay for the bandwidth for those bandwidth hog videos.

How is the bandwidth from say 10 one hour videos any different from the bandwidth of 1 ten hour video?

You can count me among the people who find clicking on a single 8-10 hour video for a night's sleep as more convenient than assembling a playlist, especially one that might have jarring transitions in it. Even "black" videos tend to have some video signal at the start and end.

A better argument than playlists might have been the repeat function, except it's not exposed on all client devices (like TVs) and many users don't know about it even on the devices that do expose it.

 

[kiwigraeme]

I get a warning and I click close and the video stills plays.

They normally give you about 3 of those - I click disable element - then refresh - never had the final warning

 

[nismo91]

How is the bandwidth from say 10 one hour videos any different from the bandwidth of 1 ten hour video?

You can count me among the people who find clicking on a single 8-10 hour video for a night's sleep as more convenient than assembling a playlist, especially one that might have jarring transitions in it. Even "black" videos tend to have some video signal at the start and end.

A better argument than playlists might have been the repeat function, except it's not exposed on all client devices (like TVs) and many users don't know about it even on the devices that do expose it.

the difference is anyone can upload 10 hour videos. so when you search for long white noise videos, you get hundreds if not thousands of videos of the same thing. that's no problem but when many of them are 10 hours long then again it's taking up both storage and bandwidth. think of it this way, google drive only give free users 15GB storage. you wanna have 100GB you gotta pay 2 bucks every month or so.

what I'm saying is that youtube should've used such a plan for creators, you wanna upload 10 hour long videos, then you need to have a plan, or maybe achieve certain subscribers or so. that way the servers aren't filled with low quality content that eats up so much storage. that probably sound restrictive for new streamers but not for the general public. also that sounds a whole lot better than forcing people to whitelist ads.

 

[RandomWAN]

They normally give you about 3 of those - I click disable element - then refresh - never had the final warning

You can already find guides for the specific element code to add to various ad blockers to completely remove it from your sight. They'll eventually hit you with a permanent ad block message that's embedded in the player container, but I haven't tested to see if that's a site wide or if it just pops up on a per video basis.

I was doing some testing earlier with videos and would make changes then refresh, but I didn't check across a variety of videos. It seems to be a good indicator for whether a channel is monetized though. Some videos didn't pop up with the warning at all, but I didn't check those completely unfiltered to see if they were still pushing ads on the video. (They supposedly started putting ads on videos that aren't monetized by some reports.)

 

[Dimitrios]

You can already find guides for the specific element code to ad to various ad blockers to completely remove it from your sight. They'll eventually hit you with a permanent ad block message that's embedded in the player container, but I haven't tested to see if that's a site wide or if it just pops up on a per video basis.

I was doing some testing earlier with videos and would make changes then refresh, but I didn't check across a variety of videos. It seems to be a good indicator for whether a channel is monetized though. Some videos didn't pop up with the warning at all, but I didn't check those completely unfiltered to see if they were still pushing ads on the video. (They supposedly started putting ads on videos that aren't monetized by some reports.)

Anyone having issues with YOUTUBE unsubscribing "certain" channels and removing your LIKE button being reset? My weird problem is with (JudicialWatch) with investigations of Jan6 and about secret service being attacked 11 times by their German Shepard. Also this happens to certain" music video's like KIDROCK "We the people." Sorry for rambling on, this will be my last comment.

 

[RandomWAN]

Anyone having issues with YOUTUBE unsubscribing "certain" channels and removing your LIKE button being reset? My weird problem is with (JudicialWatch) with investigations of Jan6 and about secret service being attacked 11 times by their German Shepard. Also this happens to certain" music video's like KIDROCK "We the people." Sorry for rambling on, this will be my last comment.

I haven't run across that particular issue that I can recall; it hasn't happened with any channels I watch regularly. The reports of this behavior by the platform have been ubiquitous, but I haven't seen anything more than things like social blade stats showing dips in subscriber numbers without the associated unsubscribe numbers. They definitely throttle the growth of some channels as you would see their growing subscriber/view counts run into invisible walls out of nowhere.

 

[Robbie K]

I have stopped using YouTube. Raising prices (quietly) then they want even more money with ads. YouTube you can keep your little kingdom.

What do you use instead?

 

[kiwigraeme]

Blocking the element - stopped working for me - so just copy url and watch it on Brave unsigned in - I'll wait for an industrial strength solution - and not random peoples scripts here and there

Hopefully means Chrome suffers as well as others move to other Browsers

I just here horror stories how many adverts - I mean if low advert , cheap sub - I could go with that - max 1 30 second advert only at beginning-

Funny check youtube music - still have not seen any adverts

Also if you run video in background in mute - then go to "rewatch" do you get new adverts ??