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."
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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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Disabling the dislike button was also a "small experiment" at first
This WILL be mandatory in a year
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These tards also got rid of the oldest video view on channels. Now it's just new and popular. Fricking r-slurred.
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Youtube search also now shows a bunch of irrelevant and trending videos related to what you've watched before (if you clear your search history/use incognito they don't even pretend to be helping you and just cover the screen in front page garbage) that fill in the place used by half the results, so finding specific videos by title is much harder if they didn't have many views or are old
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Why would you want to watch old irrelevant videos smh
Don't you want what's hip and popular?
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