Asked for comment, a Google spokesperson told IGN that it was a "small experiment."
"We're running a small experiment globally that urges viewers with ad blockers enabled to allow ads on YouTube or try YouTube Premium," they said via email. "Ad blocker detection is not new, and other publishers regularly ask viewers to disable ad blockers."
reddit discus
https://old.reddit.com/r/youtube/comments/13cfdbi/apparently_ad_blockers_are_not_allowed_on_youtube/?sort=controversial <- This is where it was originally first posted (1k Updoots and 1k cumments)
poster note: I tried adding all the 'its over' to capture the diversity that this decision will affect and was met with this
i do not feel bad at all
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Youtube is absolutely unwatchable with ads
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I love Idris Elba raping my ears with that illegible accent of his
"WIT' BOO-KEN' DAHT CAHM..."
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There are short videos on yt
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YouTube got away with 2 ads wayyy too easily
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Also the new UI...
Jesus!
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maybe YouTube would turn a profit if they fired their whole UIX team. they do nothing but make the site shitter every 5 or so years
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That's how Google works. Frick up the UI, ignore requests to unfrick it
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UX teams are full of foids.
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I kind of like ambient mode tbh, but I'm also semi-r-slurred so make of that what you will
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Its pretty terrible, up to thirty seconds of ads every two minutes its ridiculous. I use newpipe which is a little less annoying
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I have vague recollection (maybe trauma) of watching YouTube on my phone during election season and every political ad was unskippable
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Me too. And literally all those ads were funded by Sam Bankman-Fried, so I have a special reason to hate him.
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Im actually a so always get political ads from states i was in last week
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I keep getting the most extreme wingcuck ads. It's probably from following links on rDrama.
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They're going to lose to tick tock at this point. No wonder they want it to be banned
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