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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I just opened YouTube and it tried to make me upload a video of myself or a photoID to my account? Wtf lmaoooo
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https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/10071085?hl=en
Nah it's real for some countries.
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In most states you don't even need an ID for liquor if you look old enough. Truly America is #1
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Also clearly black market cigarettes for half the normal price! :D
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There are going to be ways around ads if you have any level of competence, this only serves to filter normies which is where YouTube makes the shekels. Even the smallest level of obfuscation is enough for normies.
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Frick Liberty Mutual, VRSO and Raid Shadow Legends.
That is all.
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bought premium after vanced stopped working, simply stop being poor
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Revanced
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It's so nice, it even automatically skips sponsored parts of videos
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It absorbed the functionality of sponsorblock which had been a PC extension for a long time
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For anyone with an LG TV (WebOS) you can also get ad free YouTube with sponsorblock
Only downside is you can't change video speed
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Vanced stopped working like a week ago tho?
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Vanced ytmusic still works btw
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ReVanced works fine
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Ban i have a link?
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ReVanced apk
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Keep yourself safe cute twink jew
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Literally just use newpipe
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Literally just use an adblock
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Literally just stop watching videos. If you didn’t see it live it was not Gods will.
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dude that's krazy
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King r-slur
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Imagine giving money to youtubers
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But does it break NewPipe?
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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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YouTube premium enjoyers stay winning
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Were they not hemorrhaging enough users to tiktok already?
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Which one will pick?
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first option of course
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What a landslide
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Youtibe is way too far along the enshittification process to prioritise user experience. TikTok has already started down this path, too, but they have a lot of catching up to do.
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This better or I'm gonna Ted post
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Youtube is horrible without an adblocker. I'd probably just stop watching tbh.
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Yeah there is exactly a zero % chance I will use Youtube if they force me to watch ads.
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There will definitely be a way to bypass this I think, youtube is just so big
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For Christmas I got my whole family youtube red on top of some really nice booze with the family bundle because none of them are smart enough to use an add blocker. They love it and everyone says its the best gift they have gotten in a while since they said they use it nonstop now that there is no adds.
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Why not show them how to use an adblock and gift them a whole internet free of adspam?
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I tried to install an adblocker on a teachers laptop once, never again, some people are too dumb to handle an extension that isn't built to steal ur CC info.
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Also im not poor lol
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They use their tvs and phones mostly to watch it. I know you can do stuff like vpn block but its way less of a head ache to just send them an activation email for no commercials on all devices. I promise im not a secret YouTube red shill
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Alphabet Inc Class A bros...... we are so fricking back.
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I pay for jewtube premium and I hate sponsorship ads bc YouTubers do not deserve the money they get to make videos for my entertainment and edutainment.
If the survival and bushcraft content creators had actual jobs there’d be much better content than just repeating the same shit about ridge lines, basic knots every man learned in the boy scouts and minimalist shelter building. I have a relatively small YouTube channel for outdoors stuff and have applied unique skills and information to my content I’ve learned and experienced at work every time and will never take a sponsor nor alter my content in order to “make it” in the jewtube sphere because it’s just a hobby and don’t want to make videos my fricking job. I don’t know how half of these r-slurs even enjoy themselves when they bring all this camera equipment with them every time
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Carp is so hot
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literally who???
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Idk some tumblr proana gore blog enjoyer
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Bitchute gods this is our time
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Dailymotion comeback
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Where my Vimeo chads at?
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I miss vidme
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we all do
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Just buy Premium through Turkey and it's like $1 a month
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laughs in yt-dlp
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Based based based
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You get that streaming involves downloading, right?
People who "stream" just download without control
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i have shell scripts set up on my HTPC to download new videos from channels i follow every night at 2am
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submit this
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Same. It's just way too convenient to watch stuff on the HTPC. YouTube UI/UX is dogshit.
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Gib scripts please senpai
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It's pretty easy. I have a separate subfolder for each channel. In that folder I have a script, download.sh, set up like so:
#!/bin/bash
yt-dlp --dateafter now-7days --playlist-end 10 --download-archive '/pathtofolder/dunkey/downloaded.txt' -o '/pathtofolder/dunkey/%(title)s.%(ext)s' -- 'https://youtube.com/user/videogamedunkey/videos'
You can mess with the parameters but I have it set up like that. You feed it the channel's videos URL, it looks at the 10 most recent videos (restricted to the last seven days), and if the video isn't recorded in downloaded.txt it downloads it and records it in downloaded.txt.
Then in the base folder I have another script download.sh set up like:
#!/bin/bash
export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/bin/
. /pathtofolder/dunkey/download.sh
. /pathtofolder/3blue1brown/download.sh
It simply calls each download.sh script in sequence. Then in crontab for su I add the entry:
0 2 * * * /pathtofolder/download.sh > /pathtofolder/log.txt
Every morning at 2am this calls the parent download.sh script and stores the output in log.txt.
yt-dlp also requires ffmpeg installed to combine the downloaded video and audio files. yt-dlp also needs to be updated somewhat frequently because Google always changes the way videos work to mess with them.
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theyll shut that down too
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Then I record the screen with OBS and skip the ads manually.
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