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YouTube is making it clear, your ad blocker is no longer welcome. If you want an ad-free watching experience, you’ll have to purchase YouTube Premium. Traditionally, ad blockers on browsers have been able to prevent ads from displaying by intercepting them before they reach your device. But YouTube is looking to outsmart this process by…

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YouTube is making it clear, your ad blocker is no longer welcome. If you want an ad-free watching experience, you’ll have to purchase YouTube Premium. Traditionally, ad blockers on browsers have been able to prevent ads from displaying by intercepting them before they reach your device. But YouTube is looking to outsmart this process by implementing server-side ad injection. If you don’t know what that means, don’t worry we’re breaking it down in this video.

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  1. @CyberMonkey6969

    June 18, 2024 at 12:11 pm

    There will always be a workaround “FUCK YOU YOUTUBE!!!!”

    • @lawliet91819

      June 19, 2024 at 9:46 am

      saying that on youtube is crazy

  2. @bluechip6596

    June 18, 2024 at 12:16 pm

    Wtf are those glasses.

    • @likebot.

      June 18, 2024 at 1:31 pm

      googgles.

    • @grahamfinlayson-fife73

      June 24, 2024 at 1:09 pm

      ????????✊????????????????????️‍⚧️????????

  3. @Justin-si2vi

    June 18, 2024 at 6:29 pm

    The problem isn’t just YT itself. It’s YT creators, there are other platforms and they all refuse including TechCrunch to upload to third party websites to help make them lose traffic. I try to find YT channels off of the platform, but apparently the YT creators that complains about YT don’t care enough to actually move or have a second channel. It’s rather sad. After YT started doing this, I pretty much limited what I’ve been doing here. For all music, I just switched completely to Itunes, and for other stuff like documentaries I switched to curiousitystream and then use nebula. Anything else, I try to download and use locally.

  4. @Anonymous-rj2lk

    June 19, 2024 at 5:53 am

    “You will own nothing and be happy.”

  5. @LuigiTrapanese

    June 19, 2024 at 6:27 am

    Go ahead youtube, go ahead, let’s play this one out

  6. @himanshujht

    June 19, 2024 at 1:27 pm

    Good I will stop watching YouTube and star reading new books every month from now on.

  7. @skylers1144

    June 19, 2024 at 3:11 pm

    It is a service, and don’t see anything wrong with them charging you by making you watch the ad. Nothing is free, paid for it, or just don’t use it.

  8. @CarterM2008

    June 19, 2024 at 10:22 pm

    What happened to Twitch will now happen to Youtube.

  9. @systembackup

    June 21, 2024 at 12:56 am

    this is actually a good move specially to support creators

  10. @ShaneBlackheart

    June 21, 2024 at 11:56 am

    I actually got a weird block today when trying to go to Youtube. I got a white page with just a few lines of text saying it detected something malicious from my IP address and placed a block on it temporarily. It said it could be due to a browser extension, but I’m suspecting it’s because of uBlock Origin. I reloaded and my sub page loaded immediately. I’m worried about losing my channel and having my google account I need for work compromised, so I’m just disabling ublock for now. It’s honestly not making me want to sub to premium because I’ve already got tons of bills, I don’t need another just for youtube.

    • @ShaneBlackheart

      June 21, 2024 at 11:58 am

      I should add I’m just a regular person who just wants to watch videos and upload my own. I write books. I have no clue what malicious code they detected from Firefox.

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