YouTube starting to crack down on ad-blocking programs

[True Dough]

Some YouTube users are starting to see a prompt warning them that ad blockers are not allowed on the platform. That could prove a major roadblock for folks worldwide.

As reported by The Verge this week, this is the latest step in a building crusade from the platform against ad blockers.

Jay Peters of The Verge wrote that they were getting a prompt from YouTube saying that it looked like they were using an ad blocker — and that YouTube required a person to have ads or upgrade to Premium to use the platform. YouTube said, however, that this was part of a test that began over the summer to prohibit the use of ad blockers on the platform.

A quick online search shows that Peters is not alone in seeing the ad blocker prompt. People are certainly not happy about it. For some users, watching YouTube with ads is a non-starter.

https://sea.mashable.com/tech/27547/youtube-isnt-happy-youre-using-ad-blockers-and-its-doing-something-about-it

[bucolic_frolic]

1. I do use ad-blocker, but there are delays even without it. I don't YouTube as much as 5 years ago

The nonsense content isn't worth beans. Every idiot trying to make a buck.

[msongs]

2. youtube is unfit to watch with ads. I got those msgs for a few days. Id pay $5 a month

for ad free youtube but they want you pay like 13 or 15

[NutmegYankee]

3. There are ad blocker blocker ad-ons that strip out ad blocking code from a webpage.

Ads are a major vulnerability for malicious code attacks right now. I feel no moral issue with blocking them until the corporations clean up their act and make them virus proof.

[True Dough]

4. Good point!

I have a script-blocking extension for the same reason.

[SheilaAnn]

5. I get these prompts all of the time, I just don't read and pick up the content somewhere else. n/t

[True Dough]

6. You find the video content elsewhere?

If so, which are you're alternative go-to sites?

[SheilaAnn]

7. Content will usually appear in conversations on DU. n/t

[Chainfire]

8. I will fix that problem they same way I fixed commercial TV. I just don't watch it.

[dalton99a]

9. Google hates it when it can't monetize users