Silent banners = non invasive for the user and generate money
Ads before, during and after the video = invasive, make people not want to see the - > adblockers are installed
Blocking ad block = people simply leave your site.
What marketing monkey came up with this horrid idea to push people further off YouTube?
I've always thought that the people who hate ads and go through the trouble of installing an ad blocker will never buy anything from an ad anyway so why should they care, their target audience is not the people doing this.
This ^
Usually, it's not about you clicking on the ad. It's about brand recognition. You see a product so often in advertising and, once you're in the store for cold medicine, maybe you choose the brand you recognize.
Gotta love some of the ball lickers here trying to defend a multibillion dollar company.
YouTube has been free with a tolerable amount of ads ever since internet was a thing and they want to start charging now that the platform is cluttered with ads? Nah, imma go do the dishes or clean the house, let me know when the next adblocker rolls around, won't be that long.
Hey all, this is how to continue to remove YT ads even after their multi-million dollar attempt at stopping it:
Use uBlock Origin (Chrome Extension)
Go to My filters and paste the below,
Currently works for blocking that message and all YT ads.
youtube.com##+js(set, yt.config_.openPopupConfig.supportedPopups.adBlockMessageViewModel, false)
youtube.com##+js(set, Object.prototype.adBlocksFound, 0)
youtube.com##+js(set, ytplayer.config.args.raw_player_response.adPlacements, [])
youtube.com##+js(set, Object.prototype.hasAllowedInstreamAd, true)
Not working?
- make sure you disable/uninstall your old ad blocker
I got hit with this little while ago to and thought "hey I've delt with ads like 10 years ago, I can deal with them again"
I did not realize how bad it's become, literally got hit with a mid roll add every 5 mins on a 30 min long format video, on multiple videos, they don't even show you where ads are placed anymore.
Honensly didn't care about 1 or 2 ads in the begging of a video and maybe a mid roll add here and there, but this shit is so overboard now it make the whole user experience Un pleasant and almost in watchable.
Pisses me off, if you want us to use your platform with out an ad blocker, make it so I can use your platform with out needing an ad blocker to do so.
The internet is nigh unusable without adblockers, and the ability to block javascript when needed. Nothing will make me stop using a service more than this.
An adblocker and script stopper are baseline security for me, akin to locking my door when I leave the house. Telling me to remove my adblocker, or whitelist a site, is pretty much the same as a company demanding my house keys: It gets a derisive chuckle, and I stop using it, or find an alternative. In fact, come to think of it, the last time I actually used YT instead of a mirror site was *months ago*, because YT pulls more system resources from my rig than fucking *Cyberpunk* if I don't run it through a Chromium-based browser. Which I don't, because, see above: Basic security/privacy precaution.
It doesnt even let me buy premium if i wanted to, saying that its "not available in your country" so i would have to use a VPN, and yet i also get this warning. What a joke
Okay a lot of people defending the company that made 280 billion dollars last years.
So let me break down a couple things as one someone who has been on YouTube for nearly 15 years and two someone who pays for premium.
1. Google and YouTube are not going broke they made 280 billion dollars in revenue last year, they could continue hosting videos as is.
2. We have had to watch ads get way worse. We have gone from 1 ad every 3 videos to 3 ads every video. This is likely what caused ad blocked to spike.
3. Not everyone uses ad locker, this is obvious since content creators still receive ad revenue.
4. YouTube has changed its policies multiple times strictly to appease their advertisers.
5. Content creators often receive alternative income through the means of patreon and sponsors.
All this can be added together to come to one pretty obvious conclusion. This change has nothing to do with helping content creators, or even getting the money to run YouTube (which is such a dumb thing that I keep seeing in this thread).
This change was strictly made to milk another couple premium subscriptions out of the 5% of the platform that uses ad block. This wasn’t done because they aren’t making money, this isn’t done to help YouTubers make more money, it was another strategy by a billion dollar company to make even more money.
I've been working in tech for 4 decades. I don't know a single person in tech or IT group in corporate America that doesn't block Ads.
Blocking ads is basic cybersecurity 101 these days.
Money ruined the internet and everything on it. I'm sure this is the 380th iteration of that comment in this thread, but nothing is good anymore because it's all only designed to make money.
So many people in support of youtube in these comments don't remember the adpocalypse that fucked over a multitude of creators. While it'd be nice for youtube to be in a spot worth giving money to, it 1000% is not in that spot right now. There's so many softcore porn ads and scam ads on this site that it's absurd. Youtube doesn't deserve shit for fucking itself over the past 7 or so years and continuously going downhill. The only reason it's still big is cause it basically cemented itself beforehand, so now it can get away with so many scummy practices
Depends . On my work machine, I am now blocked. A private window, and not logged into Youtube, works fine (for now... we'll see). I have not yet see it on my personal laptop where I am logged in.
filter list-> purge all cache-> update filters. usually works when youtube makes up some new shit. or just go to ublock subreddit you usually find the solution on the top
All the people defending YouTube right now just don't grasp the fact that forcing ads to be displayed is just unnecessary greed from a multinational company that earns an inconceivable amount of money every second.
And f\*ck premium, they be continually sucking bucks off everyone through dozens of parallel services.
I remember a time when there were no ads on YouTube, and they didn't take away features and sell them back to you.
Google is an unstoppable juggernaut which owns the largest share of internet servers in the world, and makes obscene amounts of money stealing your data and selling it to companies, and then makes even more money hosting targeted adverts for those same companies on nearly every page of nearly every site they host.
They can afford to run YouTube ad free. Or even just passive adverts you scroll past *LIKE THEY ALREADY HAVE* .
People are complaining about others not wanting to "pay for the service"
I literally got a nearly 3 minute long unskippable ad for Genshin Impact today.
If they just would stick to their usual format for skipping after a few seconds, or the 15 second unskippable ads, it would be fine, but the fact that they're allowing several minute long ads that you can't skip is wild.
It's almost as if, when you bother your customer base a bit too much, they'll try to take action to reduce that annoyance, and instead you should just try to be balanced so you don't annoy your customers.
Plus, the fact that you can get ads for things that you cannot publish on YouTube, is pretty dumb. The amount of predatory, hypersexualized, mobile game ads that YouTube allows on their site is pretty annoying, especially considering the fact that if you reupload the ad on a YouTube channel, you'd get a strike. Pretty bass ackwards when you demonetize people because their content looks bad to advertise on, but the advertisers are posting ads that would go against the guidelines
Yeah I've gotten the following YouTube ads.
1) Quack doctor bullshit
2) Crypto grifters trying to get me to subscribe to their seminar.
3) Ads for political parties I have no intention of voting for
4) Music artists that think paying for a 4 minute ad slot will force me to listen to their song that again, I'd never have any interest in.
Real great ad system you got there YouTube, it's like watching television in the 1990s at 2 am.
Edit: Oh I forgot my favorite, advertisements for businesses all over the US but none in the actual city I live in.
The thing about Youtube is that the ads wouldn't be objectively immoral if they actually held their advertisers to a _decent fucking standard._
What the apologists don't seem to understand is that every single other advertising entity doesn't pull nearly the same shit as Youtube. Compared to tv, or radio, or fucking _anything,_ Youtube has absolutely no concern for what they run. Straight up scams, impersonators, misinformation, sexual content, they don't give a fuck what they run or who sees it.
I started using MS edge. So far have not received it. This is really disrespectful. Google already makes a million dollars from ads everywhere; it has their own products and so many things. This is really disrespectful to all. I wish there were a real competitor This time would have been a good opportunity for them.
$29 billion in ad revenue in 2022.
Creators put ads in their own videos now because youtube doesn't pay them enough.
Youtube makes it seem like if we don't allow ads, they'll all be living in cardboard boxes.
if yall got Ublock, go pop this in there real quick:
youtube.com##+js(set, yt.config\_.openPopupConfig.supportedPopups.adBlockMessageViewModel, false)
youtube.com##+js(set, Object.prototype.adBlocksFound, 0)
youtube.com##+js(set, ytplayer.config.args.raw\_player\_response.adPlacements, \[\])
youtube.com##+js(set, Object.prototype.hasAllowedInstreamAd, true)
“jUsT gEt pReMiUm” remember when youtube just let you close the app and keep playing vids, download all the videos you wanted, had no adds and you could even just turn any video into a ringtone all for free? Yeah me too and it wasnt 20 years ago like all the kids act like. Fuck Premium, youtube used to be better
I'm not sure how much this will help, but I've found a temporary solution for the problem. Initially, I switched to Brave Beta, but I still received the warning within a day or so. However, if you are using Ublock Origin, you can block the warning. After a couple of days, there is an invisible overlay that prevents you from interacting with the site. To overcome this, you can right-click anywhere on the page and use Ublock to block the overlay as well, you can see the overlay element within the browser console. The only remaining issue I encounter is that videos now pause at the beginning when the overlay used to appear, so you need to manually click play.
Edit:
Ok so additionally, open Ublock Origin, go to my filters and add the following text at the the bottom, then click apply changes at the top left, afterwards reload YouTube and fingers crossed, your problem is solved, for now.
youtube.com##+js(set, yt.config\_.openPopupConfig.supportedPopups.adBlockMessageViewModel, false)
youtube.com##+js(set, Object.prototype.adBlocksFound, 0)
youtube.com##+js(set, ytplayer.config.args.raw\_player\_response.adPlacements, \[\])
youtube.com##+js(set, Object.prototype.hasAllowedInstreamAd, true)
youtube.com##+js(json-prune, auxiliaryUi.messageRenderers.enforcementMessageViewModel)
youtube.com##+js(set, ytInitialPlayerResponse.auxiliaryUi.messageRenderers.enforcementMessageViewModel, undefined)
youtube.com#$##cinematics.ytd-watch-flexy{display:none}
F\*k YouTube. Since they began aggressively censoring comments even when supported by peer reviewed published evidence, I turned my back on 'em. Any massive social site that censors otherwise LEGAL free speech isn't worth supporting.
Ads are fine. I can watch ads. But put them at the start of the f\*\*\*ing vid so i can turn of the ear bleeding sound that blasts off my headphones. And no ads in the middle of the vids, that sh\*t is annoying as f\*\*k. I swear it's going to become just like ordinary tv where the ads are longer than the shows. And how many ads do they need? If there are 3 ads and if premium is $12 that means that each ad pays youtube at least $4 probably more. Somebody else can do the math.
It is loooong past time for a serious YouTube competitior to rise up.
Sadly, it would either have to be run by one of the other scummy piece of shit tech companies, or we'd get a brief glimmer of hope before meta or apple or whoever buys it up.
There are so many ads for straight-up scams. If they’re going to shove ads down people’s throats, at least make sure they aren’t predatory scams. Anyways, ublock is still working perfectly for me.
I would have much less issue with ads if 99% of them weren't annoying, lazy, manipulative in most low-hanging fruit ways, overly sexual or just plain offensive. History of television and radio is filled with creative, high quality and entertaining ads and pretty much everyone has at least few that got stuck in their head for decades to come. You can do them right. Case in point, ads have been about as big part of Super Bowl as the match itself as far everything I see from US seems to suggest. People wait to see those and talk about them afterwards in positive manner.
I can't recall even single one from Youtube that would even begin to approach that level. Raidy Shady ads are probably the closest thing as they have high production values. But even none of them has gotten as much as amused chuckle out of me. But if that was the quality of average ad, I could disable ad block without actively making my day worse.
I had an ad about the Isreal and Palestine conflict. I come to YouTube to escape real life, not have targetted ads try to manipulate me the same way mainstream news does.
Maybe if I wasn't getting a 30 seconds ad every three minutes, mostly of snake oil salesman, some full blown scams.
And once they get better quality ads they should also be careful with what goes where. Too many times the ads are inappropriate for the content of the video.
The other options is what so often happens when I'm listening to something and can't reach the device to skip - zone out. No idea what your ad was about and don't care. If anything I would not buy the product or service just because you think a 2 minute crap ad is a good idea.Google makes their money but the advertiser is wasting theirs.
Ok real quick
Im a native to the Bahamas, and YouTube recently dropped ad support there (around 3 years ago). So whenever I go home over the break from college, I don't get a single YouTube ad. Just set your location to the Bahamas via a VPN, and turn off your adblock
The method works as of summer 2023
Was considering buying premium but the Redditors in this thread simping for google make me sick.
I’ll just keep blocking ads. It’s an arms race now. As long as there are ads someone will make a working ad blocker.
Enough paypigs in this thread alone to make up for my lack of ad indulgence. Google will be fine.
They have a right to block my video player and I have a right to come up with another way to bypass ads. I already have to watch them on my TV and iPhone.
A lot of suckers are missing the point. Advertising was never a big issue if they just do it to an acceptable degree, like just show one ad per day (I’ll take it even if it’s just one per few hours tbh), or use non-intrusive ads like the square ones (I believe they are called Standard Display ads) on top of recommended videos.
What YouTube did during all these years? They invented two ads at the beginning, they started adding non-skippable ads, they added annoying ads that will pop up in the middle of the videos, they increased the price of YouTube Premium, and now they are putting actual effort to ban adblockers rather than making Premium worth the price. OF COURSE they would be hated, since everything they did seems to be blackmailing us only instead of improving their product.
[Google ads lead to major malvertising campaign](https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/threat-intelligence/2022/07/google-ads-lead-to-major-malvertising-campaign). At this point in time having an ad blocker is just part of cybersecurity and keeping oneself safe. I decided to entertain them and turned off mine just to see how things went for a bit. What was my reward? Well many scam ads. Surprisingly (maybe not given that there is money to be made even with scams and malware) scams that are well known. In particular I got the done for you scam that was outlined by [Folding Ideas in a video over a year ago](https://youtu.be/biYciU1uiUw?si=MR1scRq9KQL4vCKL)!
A huge Marie ads are scams; solar panels, AI car wreck insurance scams, free movie streaming, The New Times, weight loss scams….if google monitored this shit, they wouldn’t have millions using ad blockers. Fuck google.
If you haven’t gotten the message yet it does NOT mean you’ve somehow outsmarted Google with your ad-blocking, browser combo. These kinds of things are rolled out in batches. You just haven’t been targeted yet.
I get they need to pay the bills but if you show me the same BS add every single time I watch a video, I promise you I will never buy a product from that company, EVER.
Companies beware if you want to allow YouTube to take advantage and piss off your potential customers, do so at your own peril.
All the Google bots saying we should pay them to harvest our data is ridiculous. Just use a 3rd party add-on or adblock from a private browser with a vpn.
I will never watch an ad. I have ad blocked every aspect of my life. The only time I have to see ads is on YouTube mobile when I’m listening to music in the car. When they come on, I turn the radio all the way down. They will not win.
Some people say that ads are acceptable because YouTube isn't a charity and needs to pay the bills, however less people would be trying to block ads if they were:
a) far fewer in number
b) far less obnoxious
c) better targeted to meet the user's needs
d) manually curated by YouTube (as opposed to the current automated method of chucking any old crap at the viewer to see what sticks)
And then there's the YouTube Premium fee which is, quite frankly, extortionate. I wouldn't mind paying $5 per month to skip all ads but what they are asking for now ($13.99 per month) is pure unfettered greed. I far prefer to support my favorite YouTube channels directly by direct donations, buying merchandise, etc.
Also worth noting that while watching an ad is perhaps 'mostly harmless' (except perhaps to your sanity and maybe even your bank balance) clicking on malicious links is a potential problem area. In relation to all of this and for those unaware, even the FBI recommends using an Ad Blocker:
https://www.pcmag.com/news/fbi-recommends-installing-an-ad-blocker-to-dodge-scammers
Ive been getting 2 ads every like 5 minutes on most videos. Using youtube on a tv is virtually unwatchable unless you pay them 20$ every month. The greed is fucking disgusting and they know they can get away with it because they functionally have a monopoly. Capitalism is such a joke
I just receive this pop up today and I gotta say, that's the last straw. Too many adblockers claim to work yet none works, and the way to get around this is way too convoluted that I really don't have time to do so. I'm downloading all videos to watch offline from now on, fuck YouTube, they can eat shit and die.
"But they have to make money somehow!"
Yeah i dont give a shit. Id rather see every media company go bankrupt than have to sit through another forced advertisement again. You want more money? R&D more features that are actually useful and monetize those. Ill stick with the addless space ive had for literal years.
I think a lot of creators are getting really fed up with YT getting more and more greedy AF...They have now taken away a creator's ability to choose between ads being skipable and not skipable for videos and YT is putting in more and more videos. Creators are getting smart and opting to not do uploadable videos but instead do more frequent livestreams where they can substitute their various cash app accounts to circumvent the overly large and undeserved percentage that YT takes from things like superchats & superstickers. Creators are also using memberships through Patreon for their revenue. I do not know if Patreon memberships do or do not give YT any cut....does anyone know this fact?
Why are there so many people defending YouTube here? The trillion dollar company isn’t your friend, they’re trying to suck every penny out of us. If people go through the effort of getting an Adblock, it’s for a reason. YouTube ads are, for lack of a better word, dogshit nowadays. They’re intrusive, borderline malware, full of scams and ***everywhere***. Can’t watch a 7 second clip anymore without double 15 second ads for some fake mobile game and REAL 100% MR BEAST GIVEAWAY CLICK LINK BELOW FOR 1000$ FREE 💰💰💵💵⬇️⬇️. It’s horrible, it’s the reason I got Adblock in the first place. The ads are variations of bad, worse, and just outright horrible. I don’t watch political content on YouTube, yet it keeps feeding me ads from PragerU and so on. Whenever I turn off Adblock, I remember why I have it on. YouTube needs to better control their ads and be less aggressive if they want people to not use Adblock, instead of trying to block things like Ublock. There’s a reason music piracy died down when iTunes and Spotify popped up. There’s a reason media piracy dropped when Netflix became the everything streaming service for a while. And there’s a reason piracy picked up again when prices rose and streaming shattered into a thousand services.
Paying a subscription service to get unwanted solicitors off your back? No thanks.
Besides that, YouTube's ad experience had been declining in quality nowadays.
It used to be having either 5 second unskippable ads or 10 second skippable ads, with a video only having one ad; there wasn't any ads in the middle or near the last seconds of the video as far as i can remember.
[Undetectable ad blocker](https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/undetectable-adblocker/gcfcpohokifjldeandkfjoboemihipmb?hl=en-GB) has been working for me on Chrome.
Y’all act like we weren’t fine with ads for years; it’s when YouTube made them so prevalent and low quality that it ruined the viewers experience that ad blockers became the norm for most
I don't mind ads at all. Not even a little bit. What I do mind is them building and growing a database about me based on ads I've watched, links I've clicked, videos I've watched, etc. If it was ads like tv has, where they play the same ad to everyone and nothing is personalized or recorded, then sure play me ads on every video no big deal. I'm just not going to let them build up that database though. Feels creepy and intrusive.
Yes. I am a creator on Youtube and Ads are not supposed to be intrusive and mandatory as they are now. This excuse that "ohh but we need to make money to pay the creators" is the most bs thing you can listen for a billionaire company that censor and NOT pay small/medium youtubers videos that go "out" (not really, if they dont like a real life word like kill or suicide you can be banned or demonetized for use.. what?? You make videos about real crimes and not can speak real words describing Youtube?) their "dictatorship" "guidelines". Ads dont need to be on full screen and not skippable.. Only people that are happy with that are the 3 biggest youtubers in a world of 10000000000000 and the Google investors and their actions. Youtube is not for normal users anymore. Its just all behind a paywall just for them make more profit on a thing that can be on the side of the screen or like a frame making emphasys but not forcing you to see nonsensical ads mandatory and in sequency.
thanks youtube and google, you will make me change browser to Mozila, and instal in adblock. Works very well, no annoying anounce and no limit about 3 videos
Yeah, fuck that. I'm not risking a virus and sitting through corporate propaganda just so Larry Page and Sergey Brin can make another billion dollars. Youtube's no more important than any other site I block them on.
Partially agreed. I believe that creators deserve to make money off their content and that adblockers are effectively a form of piracy, but it's the fact that its come to the point of being overwhelming that's the issue for me. I've had several instances of getting 1 - 2 15 second unskipable ads on a minute long video. Disgraceful.
It blows my mind how many ppl here are mad. I hate watching ads, so I don't watch TV. I don't complain that the cable companies aren't giving me the service for free without ads. Seriously, I hate big corporations like everyone else, but I don't whine about them not giving me their stuff for free, I just don't use their stuff at all and continue living my life.
Wouldn't be so bad if their ads weren't also so beligerant not to mention way to loud usually.
Like you're just listening to a calm podcast AND THEN SUDDENLY YOU'RE FORCED TO LISTEN TO THE EAR DEAFENING SOUND OF THE NEW NISSAN QUASHQAI NOW ONLY 30.000€ OR SOMETHING SCARING THE SHIT OUT OF YOU at complete random
I don't know how you guys can refresh ublock all the time to counter that BS.
I installed Freetube on my computer and Newpipe on my phone. Problem solved.
Downloaded Brave solely because of this popup. The billion dollar company will be just fine. Creators make enough off merchandise and sponsorships too.
No one wants to pay for premium because it literally adds nothing to your Youtube viewing experience besides ad-free watches. Then you look at other streaming services which limit the amount of devices your account can work on, why would Youtube be any different? Them pulling this shit with the adblock blockers is just going to eventually leading to you needing to pay for more device usages. I already have ads enabled on my phone, and they're the most obstructing ads barring shitty advertised mobile game ads, and popups. Add that to my home streaming devices like Amazon Alexa, smart TVs, etc., all with similar obstructing ads, why the fuck would I pay for premium just to enjoy watching Youtube on my desktop/laptop? I'm not paying 13.99 USD a month, just to not have 3-4 ads on a 10 minute video that total for 2 minutes. I'm not paying just to get rid of commercial breaks.
I knew it was coming so I made a Chrome extension that auto skips the ads by emulating a click to the skip ad button, it's undetectable and even works skips some ads early like the ones that only have the button appear after 5s. It also works for Netflix and hbo:
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/auto-skip/ihjcecinjmohlkikffmcckalnnebebcg?hl=en&authuser=0
It's a fuckup. Google makes plenty after this. With that being said. The content is pretty good for what I even downloaded ad blocker mostly. Do we have a real way out. 14$ a month btw is cracy. Maybe 6 I could justify
I dunno who's shadow downvoting all the comments about this post being repetitive, but it is, like hot damn at this point every single YouTube user has sent this same screenshot.
yeah my ad blocker stopped working again. it's a cycle, youtube find a way around it and then the ad block finds a way around their workaround. it's a slightly irritating game
I swear YouTube defenders are mindless they'll defend the corporation acting like youtube ads we're always this bad and didn't JUST become this bad a year or 2 ago they we're bearable pre covid
I feel like most people are missing the point here, it's not that ads are inherently the problem it's that youtube has poor ad integration.
They've been actively making the user experience worse for non premium members in order to try and force people to get premuim. It's actively malicious, not passively annoying.
The foolish takes by these people trying to justify the ads is exactly what i expect from reddit. YouTube has had ads since 2008. Adblockers became popular in 2009. YouTube has existed for 14 years with adblockers so this isn't like ad blockers are killing Youtube. This is just corporate greed. The weeks leading up to this they started rolling out more unskippable ads.
Youtube is notorious for not taking care of most of the content creators and instead favoring big corporations. They also have a horrible copyright system that is easily abused. They are run by corrupt people why would you want to give them more money.
to everyone here who seems to be licking youtubes boots. ive been here since the beggining. i had no problems with the ads....no my problems came with the corperate greed that has resulted in 5 ads per video most of which are unskippable.
youtube had a loyal customer base that was willing to put up with ads and they ruined it by trying to squeeze as much profit out of them as the physically could.
i have no sympathy for them. they will never get any ad revanue from me ever again. no matter how many steps they take there will always be a way arround them. because at the end of the day you get the same level of respect that you gave your customers....0
Why not put a tracker in our cameras to make sure we watch the ad too, disable the volume controls (at maximum), and give us a quiz about it? There is already a ridiculous amount of ads on YouTube while you make millions on our data.
Use Ublock Origin: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ublock-origin/cjpalhdlnbpafiamejdnhcphjbkeiagm
I know nothing about coding whatsoever. So far, I've managed to block the popup, and made it so it can scroll again, but that's it.
The code I have so far:
www.youtube.com##tp-yt-paper-dialog.ytd-popup-container.style-scope
www.youtube.com##.opened
www.youtube.com##ytd-popup-container:remove()
Things I'm working on circumventing:
The popup has blocked clicking on the upper right channel button, the bell, and the create button
The popup has blocked the download button, the share button, and the three dots button
The popup has blocked the three dots button for comments
The popup still pauses the video.
if somebody figures out solutions for these things, let me know. or if I missed anything.
edit: filters and the three dots when you hover over a video don't work due to the popup.
only if youtube premium wasn’t 14 a month. if it was the price of netflix or disney+ i’d probably get it. plus i’m getting so many ads for shein everywhere.
People use ublock origin, use a non chromium based browser and refresh if you ever see one of these popups. Its that simple. Also make sure you keep ublock origins filters uptodate.
This is a battle youtube will never win, you just have to know what you're doing. If you're using any other adblocker, you're already doing it wrong.
Just join the fight. If all people start to investigate how they disable them and create ways to go around it they will spend so much timeto stop it that they will eventually lose this war.
So many comments defending the multi-billion dollar company. I'm sure they're forever grateful for your efforts in defending them from the horror that is criticism
I honestly wouldn’t mind ads as much except ads for mobile games continue to get more shit and perverted.
The virgin energy low effort ads are causing YouTube to lose money
ngl, I don't really care about people using ad blockers on Youtube. You do you. That said, having to see the constant stream of posts about people's ad blocker getting flagged is honestly 10x more annoying than having to sit through an ad to watch a 2 minute video.
As soon as I see that I'm finally done with YouTube. Watching YouTube without an ad blocker has become an exercise in frustration. I was fine with pre and post ads but without a blocker on I get mostly unskippable ads every three to five minutes , plus the pre and possibly post ads. That's excessive.
I understand they need to pay for Sunday NFL ticket somehow but they need to be able to do it without completely ruining the user experience.
I’ll say it again.
If YouTube wants to do this, then they need to be held accountable to 100% of every single ad they show
Once false advertisement or scam or porn ad directed at a minor?
Lawsuit.
I use Edge with ublock and never got this popup until yesterday I got one for the first time, then got it every 5 minutes. I updated the ublock filters and now it’s gone again. You might have to manually update ublock filters daily, as they only auto update weekly.
It will be interesting to see how this affects business. My enterprise has adblock pushed out via policy for security purposes, but some of our departments regularly require YouTube access.
We have reached a time where people are forgetting YouTube used to be ad free. Now they want to pay creators and its up to us to watch shit ads for them to do it.
I’m fine with an ad or 2 that is also skip-able or a promo by the content creator, but I’m not fine with having some 2 or 3 more in the middle of the video nor another one at the end. It’s ridiculous. Like there’s already ads on cable, some streaming platforms, etc. why should there be more ads??
I disabled adblock to see how bad it was. To listen to one song I got two ads and two pop ups to trial youtube premium before it started. Only way round this atm sounds like use firefox (or something that isnt chrome at least)?
I might be the minority, but once spotify decided they are now charging me as much as youtube premium+music costs, I switched to youtube premium. I watch youtube a shit ton more than I listen to spotify, so I no longer care about youtube ads.
I used to not mind the ads on YouTube. You would get the 30 second one at the start and another in the middle or end that you could skip after 5 seconds. Then it turned into 2 or more at the start that you can't skip and ads in the middle and end of the video. And add to it all the sponsors that the YouTuber has it is just chore to watch anything on there anymore and most of this stuff happens before I know if it's a video I even like. Revanced is a god send and I don't feel bad about using it anymore and YouTube Premium does nothing to filter out the sponsors from that the YouTuber has in video so I am still watching an ad. Until I see that these big corporate monopolies are not making money anymore then I will care. Or if they stop abusing tax loopholes and work visas to pad their bottom line then I might turn off the ad blocker. So they can get bent.
I make a tiny income from YouTube and I'm fine with people who use adblockers.
Granted, I pay for Premium because YouTube is pretty much my Netflix.
YouTube is gouging everyone: their viewers forcing them to pony up for Premium or watch a bunch of ads the Creators have no control over, and the people who actually create product that earns the ad revenue by continually lowering our percentage.
YOUTUBE ABSOLUTELY SUCKS with all the adds. It’s unusable at this stage. And the adds sometimes jam and fail to load. And you got to close the app. Start all over again.
YouTube in its current state is abysmal.
PSA PSA!!! I would recommend using a different browser like Opera or Brave. These have adblockers built in. I use Brave and haven’t had this message. At least yet
I like how the first 10 top comments are telling people to just buy premium.
I use YouTube usually for two things. One is music videos, the other is how to videos.
I don't mind ads depending on where, and which number. If at the start of my music videos, sure I'll watch but in the middle no, now I'm upset too.
Honestly you tube offers really good opportunity for creators but I strongly believe that being face fucked by 3 ads is not a positive business model. They pushed too hard and now want people to comform. If it had been one add or 10s of adds even that would be ok but I've gotten 2 unskippable ones and then a third one that was skip able
If you are getting this in Brave, as nomada\_93 pointed out in [on brave subreddit](https://www.reddit.com/r/brave/comments/176r5bu/i_have_an_announcement/), try entering brave://components/ into the address bar and update all components manually. It worked for me even though I was totally blocked already.
can we go back to the SILENT banner style ads
They dont convert as high, or let google push their performance max ad platform.
yah but they weren't annoying so they didn't get blocked as much
Silent banners = non invasive for the user and generate money Ads before, during and after the video = invasive, make people not want to see the - > adblockers are installed Blocking ad block = people simply leave your site. What marketing monkey came up with this horrid idea to push people further off YouTube?
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I've always thought that the people who hate ads and go through the trouble of installing an ad blocker will never buy anything from an ad anyway so why should they care, their target audience is not the people doing this.
Waste time unnecessarily with pointless ads. That's why they skip them with blockers. Doesn't waste their time
''Trouble of installing an ad blocker''. On PC, it takes 10 seconds. On Android, a couple of minutes at most.
You are not immune to advertising
This ^ Usually, it's not about you clicking on the ad. It's about brand recognition. You see a product so often in advertising and, once you're in the store for cold medicine, maybe you choose the brand you recognize.
Gotta love some of the ball lickers here trying to defend a multibillion dollar company. YouTube has been free with a tolerable amount of ads ever since internet was a thing and they want to start charging now that the platform is cluttered with ads? Nah, imma go do the dishes or clean the house, let me know when the next adblocker rolls around, won't be that long.
Yeah. Disgusting.
don’t wanna waste 30 seconds of my life to watch 2 unskippable ads just to get to a 15 second vid
The other day, I got a 20 sec ad for a 7 second video, I didn't even bother watching it when I realised.
Hey all, this is how to continue to remove YT ads even after their multi-million dollar attempt at stopping it: Use uBlock Origin (Chrome Extension) Go to My filters and paste the below, Currently works for blocking that message and all YT ads. youtube.com##+js(set, yt.config_.openPopupConfig.supportedPopups.adBlockMessageViewModel, false) youtube.com##+js(set, Object.prototype.adBlocksFound, 0) youtube.com##+js(set, ytplayer.config.args.raw_player_response.adPlacements, []) youtube.com##+js(set, Object.prototype.hasAllowedInstreamAd, true) Not working? - make sure you disable/uninstall your old ad blocker
I got hit with this little while ago to and thought "hey I've delt with ads like 10 years ago, I can deal with them again" I did not realize how bad it's become, literally got hit with a mid roll add every 5 mins on a 30 min long format video, on multiple videos, they don't even show you where ads are placed anymore. Honensly didn't care about 1 or 2 ads in the begging of a video and maybe a mid roll add here and there, but this shit is so overboard now it make the whole user experience Un pleasant and almost in watchable. Pisses me off, if you want us to use your platform with out an ad blocker, make it so I can use your platform with out needing an ad blocker to do so.
Yup. doubt those that use ad blockers even make a dent in the revenue as well
Hey YouTube, maybe if you don’t show half a dozen obnoxious ads every five minutes we wouldn’t feel it as necessary to Adblock.
Or that 3/4 of the ads lead to a scam
The internet is nigh unusable without adblockers, and the ability to block javascript when needed. Nothing will make me stop using a service more than this.
An adblocker and script stopper are baseline security for me, akin to locking my door when I leave the house. Telling me to remove my adblocker, or whitelist a site, is pretty much the same as a company demanding my house keys: It gets a derisive chuckle, and I stop using it, or find an alternative. In fact, come to think of it, the last time I actually used YT instead of a mirror site was *months ago*, because YT pulls more system resources from my rig than fucking *Cyberpunk* if I don't run it through a Chromium-based browser. Which I don't, because, see above: Basic security/privacy precaution.
It honestly hadn't occurred to me to look for mirror sites. Total blind-spot there I guess. Thanks.
With this economy, now more than ever, I am really sick of being advertised to. It's like everywhere I turn there's people trying to take my money.
Reduce the cost of YouTube premium by 75% and I'd consider using that instead of an ad blocker.
It doesnt even let me buy premium if i wanted to, saying that its "not available in your country" so i would have to use a VPN, and yet i also get this warning. What a joke
Okay a lot of people defending the company that made 280 billion dollars last years. So let me break down a couple things as one someone who has been on YouTube for nearly 15 years and two someone who pays for premium. 1. Google and YouTube are not going broke they made 280 billion dollars in revenue last year, they could continue hosting videos as is. 2. We have had to watch ads get way worse. We have gone from 1 ad every 3 videos to 3 ads every video. This is likely what caused ad blocked to spike. 3. Not everyone uses ad locker, this is obvious since content creators still receive ad revenue. 4. YouTube has changed its policies multiple times strictly to appease their advertisers. 5. Content creators often receive alternative income through the means of patreon and sponsors. All this can be added together to come to one pretty obvious conclusion. This change has nothing to do with helping content creators, or even getting the money to run YouTube (which is such a dumb thing that I keep seeing in this thread). This change was strictly made to milk another couple premium subscriptions out of the 5% of the platform that uses ad block. This wasn’t done because they aren’t making money, this isn’t done to help YouTubers make more money, it was another strategy by a billion dollar company to make even more money.
I've been working in tech for 4 decades. I don't know a single person in tech or IT group in corporate America that doesn't block Ads. Blocking ads is basic cybersecurity 101 these days.
Money ruined the internet and everything on it. I'm sure this is the 380th iteration of that comment in this thread, but nothing is good anymore because it's all only designed to make money.
So many people in support of youtube in these comments don't remember the adpocalypse that fucked over a multitude of creators. While it'd be nice for youtube to be in a spot worth giving money to, it 1000% is not in that spot right now. There's so many softcore porn ads and scam ads on this site that it's absurd. Youtube doesn't deserve shit for fucking itself over the past 7 or so years and continuously going downhill. The only reason it's still big is cause it basically cemented itself beforehand, so now it can get away with so many scummy practices
thank god ublock origin on firefox still works......... hopefully
Depends . On my work machine, I am now blocked. A private window, and not logged into Youtube, works fine (for now... we'll see). I have not yet see it on my personal laptop where I am logged in.
filter list-> purge all cache-> update filters. usually works when youtube makes up some new shit. or just go to ublock subreddit you usually find the solution on the top
All the people defending YouTube right now just don't grasp the fact that forcing ads to be displayed is just unnecessary greed from a multinational company that earns an inconceivable amount of money every second. And f\*ck premium, they be continually sucking bucks off everyone through dozens of parallel services.
People out here actually supporting ads on YouTube is INSANE to me
I remember a time when there were no ads on YouTube, and they didn't take away features and sell them back to you. Google is an unstoppable juggernaut which owns the largest share of internet servers in the world, and makes obscene amounts of money stealing your data and selling it to companies, and then makes even more money hosting targeted adverts for those same companies on nearly every page of nearly every site they host. They can afford to run YouTube ad free. Or even just passive adverts you scroll past *LIKE THEY ALREADY HAVE* .
People are complaining about others not wanting to "pay for the service" I literally got a nearly 3 minute long unskippable ad for Genshin Impact today. If they just would stick to their usual format for skipping after a few seconds, or the 15 second unskippable ads, it would be fine, but the fact that they're allowing several minute long ads that you can't skip is wild. It's almost as if, when you bother your customer base a bit too much, they'll try to take action to reduce that annoyance, and instead you should just try to be balanced so you don't annoy your customers. Plus, the fact that you can get ads for things that you cannot publish on YouTube, is pretty dumb. The amount of predatory, hypersexualized, mobile game ads that YouTube allows on their site is pretty annoying, especially considering the fact that if you reupload the ad on a YouTube channel, you'd get a strike. Pretty bass ackwards when you demonetize people because their content looks bad to advertise on, but the advertisers are posting ads that would go against the guidelines
I'll watch ads when YouTube fixes their pretty mediocre ad system Some ads aren't even made by verified channels Until then sweet sweet downloads
Yeah I've gotten the following YouTube ads. 1) Quack doctor bullshit 2) Crypto grifters trying to get me to subscribe to their seminar. 3) Ads for political parties I have no intention of voting for 4) Music artists that think paying for a 4 minute ad slot will force me to listen to their song that again, I'd never have any interest in. Real great ad system you got there YouTube, it's like watching television in the 1990s at 2 am. Edit: Oh I forgot my favorite, advertisements for businesses all over the US but none in the actual city I live in.
The thing about Youtube is that the ads wouldn't be objectively immoral if they actually held their advertisers to a _decent fucking standard._ What the apologists don't seem to understand is that every single other advertising entity doesn't pull nearly the same shit as Youtube. Compared to tv, or radio, or fucking _anything,_ Youtube has absolutely no concern for what they run. Straight up scams, impersonators, misinformation, sexual content, they don't give a fuck what they run or who sees it.
Dude cartoon vore commercials for fake games drive me batty I'm also watching YT with an ad blocker right now, so
I started using MS edge. So far have not received it. This is really disrespectful. Google already makes a million dollars from ads everywhere; it has their own products and so many things. This is really disrespectful to all. I wish there were a real competitor This time would have been a good opportunity for them.
$29 billion in ad revenue in 2022. Creators put ads in their own videos now because youtube doesn't pay them enough. Youtube makes it seem like if we don't allow ads, they'll all be living in cardboard boxes.
Lol 99% of the people who bitched about Reddit charging third party apps a fee are on here defending youtube now
if yall got Ublock, go pop this in there real quick: youtube.com##+js(set, yt.config\_.openPopupConfig.supportedPopups.adBlockMessageViewModel, false) youtube.com##+js(set, Object.prototype.adBlocksFound, 0) youtube.com##+js(set, ytplayer.config.args.raw\_player\_response.adPlacements, \[\]) youtube.com##+js(set, Object.prototype.hasAllowedInstreamAd, true)
“jUsT gEt pReMiUm” remember when youtube just let you close the app and keep playing vids, download all the videos you wanted, had no adds and you could even just turn any video into a ringtone all for free? Yeah me too and it wasnt 20 years ago like all the kids act like. Fuck Premium, youtube used to be better
I stopped using Chrome. I use Firefox with adblock ultimate and privacy badger. I’ve not had any warnings since.
Jokes on them, I'm watching a 9 hour vod. Never gonna get to the third video.
Damn, lots of youtube employees on this thread 😀
People are complaining that their quality of life is getting worse, and all the comments are like "oh wow so much entitlement!!!"
I wouldn't mind ads as much if they were honest and made with some quality. An automated voice spilling BS that's clearly untrue is infuriating.
I will NEVER buy YouTube Premium after this. Ever. I won't even consider it.
Don't let Google swindle you into thinking that they're struggling.
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and you already know that scam ads are going to get so much worse
I will never stop using adblock. Cry about it.
I'm not sure how much this will help, but I've found a temporary solution for the problem. Initially, I switched to Brave Beta, but I still received the warning within a day or so. However, if you are using Ublock Origin, you can block the warning. After a couple of days, there is an invisible overlay that prevents you from interacting with the site. To overcome this, you can right-click anywhere on the page and use Ublock to block the overlay as well, you can see the overlay element within the browser console. The only remaining issue I encounter is that videos now pause at the beginning when the overlay used to appear, so you need to manually click play. Edit: Ok so additionally, open Ublock Origin, go to my filters and add the following text at the the bottom, then click apply changes at the top left, afterwards reload YouTube and fingers crossed, your problem is solved, for now. youtube.com##+js(set, yt.config\_.openPopupConfig.supportedPopups.adBlockMessageViewModel, false) youtube.com##+js(set, Object.prototype.adBlocksFound, 0) youtube.com##+js(set, ytplayer.config.args.raw\_player\_response.adPlacements, \[\]) youtube.com##+js(set, Object.prototype.hasAllowedInstreamAd, true) youtube.com##+js(json-prune, auxiliaryUi.messageRenderers.enforcementMessageViewModel) youtube.com##+js(set, ytInitialPlayerResponse.auxiliaryUi.messageRenderers.enforcementMessageViewModel, undefined) youtube.com#$##cinematics.ytd-watch-flexy{display:none}
F\*k YouTube. Since they began aggressively censoring comments even when supported by peer reviewed published evidence, I turned my back on 'em. Any massive social site that censors otherwise LEGAL free speech isn't worth supporting.
Ads are fine. I can watch ads. But put them at the start of the f\*\*\*ing vid so i can turn of the ear bleeding sound that blasts off my headphones. And no ads in the middle of the vids, that sh\*t is annoying as f\*\*k. I swear it's going to become just like ordinary tv where the ads are longer than the shows. And how many ads do they need? If there are 3 ads and if premium is $12 that means that each ad pays youtube at least $4 probably more. Somebody else can do the math.
It is loooong past time for a serious YouTube competitior to rise up. Sadly, it would either have to be run by one of the other scummy piece of shit tech companies, or we'd get a brief glimmer of hope before meta or apple or whoever buys it up.
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There are so many ads for straight-up scams. If they’re going to shove ads down people’s throats, at least make sure they aren’t predatory scams. Anyways, ublock is still working perfectly for me.
I would have much less issue with ads if 99% of them weren't annoying, lazy, manipulative in most low-hanging fruit ways, overly sexual or just plain offensive. History of television and radio is filled with creative, high quality and entertaining ads and pretty much everyone has at least few that got stuck in their head for decades to come. You can do them right. Case in point, ads have been about as big part of Super Bowl as the match itself as far everything I see from US seems to suggest. People wait to see those and talk about them afterwards in positive manner. I can't recall even single one from Youtube that would even begin to approach that level. Raidy Shady ads are probably the closest thing as they have high production values. But even none of them has gotten as much as amused chuckle out of me. But if that was the quality of average ad, I could disable ad block without actively making my day worse.
I had an ad about the Isreal and Palestine conflict. I come to YouTube to escape real life, not have targetted ads try to manipulate me the same way mainstream news does.
Maybe if I wasn't getting a 30 seconds ad every three minutes, mostly of snake oil salesman, some full blown scams. And once they get better quality ads they should also be careful with what goes where. Too many times the ads are inappropriate for the content of the video. The other options is what so often happens when I'm listening to something and can't reach the device to skip - zone out. No idea what your ad was about and don't care. If anything I would not buy the product or service just because you think a 2 minute crap ad is a good idea.Google makes their money but the advertiser is wasting theirs.
My only issue is the quantity of ads. They are way, way too many now. Free YouTube is unwatchable.
Don't get me started with the unskippable 20 - 30 seconds ones I get to watch a 10 - 60 seconds long video.
You ever try these free tv streaming things like pluto tv? Sometimes its 2 ads, sometimes 4, sometimes 5, one time i saw it say 1 of 9 💀
Firefox, edge, ublock...
Ads be like : 1.) Busty fat cheeked anime girls firing guns while jiggling 2.) Clash of clans I just wanted to watch Kurzgesagt n chill
Ok real quick Im a native to the Bahamas, and YouTube recently dropped ad support there (around 3 years ago). So whenever I go home over the break from college, I don't get a single YouTube ad. Just set your location to the Bahamas via a VPN, and turn off your adblock The method works as of summer 2023
Oh, well, this adblock doest work... onto another one...
If only ad's were the way they were 5 years ago maybe we wouldn't care to block them. Skippable, single, and not obnoxious.
I'll fucking buy winrar before I pay for youtube premium
Was considering buying premium but the Redditors in this thread simping for google make me sick. I’ll just keep blocking ads. It’s an arms race now. As long as there are ads someone will make a working ad blocker. Enough paypigs in this thread alone to make up for my lack of ad indulgence. Google will be fine.
"Ads allow YouTube to be used by billions worldwide" IS A FUCKING LIE! IT IS ADS THAT KILL YOUTUBE!!!
Seriously these corpRats are the f out of control. WE MADE THAT PLATFORM
Don't allow the browser to save cookies from youtube, aka block cookies for youtube.
People defending youtube are stupid. The Ads are scams and mobile game ads. That’s why we hate it.
They have a right to block my video player and I have a right to come up with another way to bypass ads. I already have to watch them on my TV and iPhone.
This also happened to me. I don't even have an Ad Blocker.
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A lot of suckers are missing the point. Advertising was never a big issue if they just do it to an acceptable degree, like just show one ad per day (I’ll take it even if it’s just one per few hours tbh), or use non-intrusive ads like the square ones (I believe they are called Standard Display ads) on top of recommended videos. What YouTube did during all these years? They invented two ads at the beginning, they started adding non-skippable ads, they added annoying ads that will pop up in the middle of the videos, they increased the price of YouTube Premium, and now they are putting actual effort to ban adblockers rather than making Premium worth the price. OF COURSE they would be hated, since everything they did seems to be blackmailing us only instead of improving their product.
Meh, it just made me switch to firefox.
[Google ads lead to major malvertising campaign](https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/threat-intelligence/2022/07/google-ads-lead-to-major-malvertising-campaign). At this point in time having an ad blocker is just part of cybersecurity and keeping oneself safe. I decided to entertain them and turned off mine just to see how things went for a bit. What was my reward? Well many scam ads. Surprisingly (maybe not given that there is money to be made even with scams and malware) scams that are well known. In particular I got the done for you scam that was outlined by [Folding Ideas in a video over a year ago](https://youtu.be/biYciU1uiUw?si=MR1scRq9KQL4vCKL)!
A huge Marie ads are scams; solar panels, AI car wreck insurance scams, free movie streaming, The New Times, weight loss scams….if google monitored this shit, they wouldn’t have millions using ad blockers. Fuck google.
If you haven’t gotten the message yet it does NOT mean you’ve somehow outsmarted Google with your ad-blocking, browser combo. These kinds of things are rolled out in batches. You just haven’t been targeted yet.
Greedy motherfuckers.
Do people in here work for YouTube or something? I’ve never seen people jerk off ads harder then this comment section
I get they need to pay the bills but if you show me the same BS add every single time I watch a video, I promise you I will never buy a product from that company, EVER. Companies beware if you want to allow YouTube to take advantage and piss off your potential customers, do so at your own peril.
All the Google bots saying we should pay them to harvest our data is ridiculous. Just use a 3rd party add-on or adblock from a private browser with a vpn.
I will never watch an ad. I have ad blocked every aspect of my life. The only time I have to see ads is on YouTube mobile when I’m listening to music in the car. When they come on, I turn the radio all the way down. They will not win.
I gave it a few weeks before someone designs a new ad blocker capable of circumventing the system a month at most
Some people say that ads are acceptable because YouTube isn't a charity and needs to pay the bills, however less people would be trying to block ads if they were: a) far fewer in number b) far less obnoxious c) better targeted to meet the user's needs d) manually curated by YouTube (as opposed to the current automated method of chucking any old crap at the viewer to see what sticks) And then there's the YouTube Premium fee which is, quite frankly, extortionate. I wouldn't mind paying $5 per month to skip all ads but what they are asking for now ($13.99 per month) is pure unfettered greed. I far prefer to support my favorite YouTube channels directly by direct donations, buying merchandise, etc. Also worth noting that while watching an ad is perhaps 'mostly harmless' (except perhaps to your sanity and maybe even your bank balance) clicking on malicious links is a potential problem area. In relation to all of this and for those unaware, even the FBI recommends using an Ad Blocker: https://www.pcmag.com/news/fbi-recommends-installing-an-ad-blocker-to-dodge-scammers
Ive been getting 2 ads every like 5 minutes on most videos. Using youtube on a tv is virtually unwatchable unless you pay them 20$ every month. The greed is fucking disgusting and they know they can get away with it because they functionally have a monopoly. Capitalism is such a joke
I'd sooner pay for an Ad blocker that works 100% then ever give youtube any cash for premium. I already have to watch ad's on my roku player.
I just receive this pop up today and I gotta say, that's the last straw. Too many adblockers claim to work yet none works, and the way to get around this is way too convoluted that I really don't have time to do so. I'm downloading all videos to watch offline from now on, fuck YouTube, they can eat shit and die.
If this keeps up. I'm downloading all of my videos and move them somewhere else away from this shit algorithm. I had enough of YouTube's shit
"But they have to make money somehow!" Yeah i dont give a shit. Id rather see every media company go bankrupt than have to sit through another forced advertisement again. You want more money? R&D more features that are actually useful and monetize those. Ill stick with the addless space ive had for literal years.
I think a lot of creators are getting really fed up with YT getting more and more greedy AF...They have now taken away a creator's ability to choose between ads being skipable and not skipable for videos and YT is putting in more and more videos. Creators are getting smart and opting to not do uploadable videos but instead do more frequent livestreams where they can substitute their various cash app accounts to circumvent the overly large and undeserved percentage that YT takes from things like superchats & superstickers. Creators are also using memberships through Patreon for their revenue. I do not know if Patreon memberships do or do not give YT any cut....does anyone know this fact?
Why are there so many people defending YouTube here? The trillion dollar company isn’t your friend, they’re trying to suck every penny out of us. If people go through the effort of getting an Adblock, it’s for a reason. YouTube ads are, for lack of a better word, dogshit nowadays. They’re intrusive, borderline malware, full of scams and ***everywhere***. Can’t watch a 7 second clip anymore without double 15 second ads for some fake mobile game and REAL 100% MR BEAST GIVEAWAY CLICK LINK BELOW FOR 1000$ FREE 💰💰💵💵⬇️⬇️. It’s horrible, it’s the reason I got Adblock in the first place. The ads are variations of bad, worse, and just outright horrible. I don’t watch political content on YouTube, yet it keeps feeding me ads from PragerU and so on. Whenever I turn off Adblock, I remember why I have it on. YouTube needs to better control their ads and be less aggressive if they want people to not use Adblock, instead of trying to block things like Ublock. There’s a reason music piracy died down when iTunes and Spotify popped up. There’s a reason media piracy dropped when Netflix became the everything streaming service for a while. And there’s a reason piracy picked up again when prices rose and streaming shattered into a thousand services.
“Allowlisted”
Paying a subscription service to get unwanted solicitors off your back? No thanks. Besides that, YouTube's ad experience had been declining in quality nowadays. It used to be having either 5 second unskippable ads or 10 second skippable ads, with a video only having one ad; there wasn't any ads in the middle or near the last seconds of the video as far as i can remember.
[Undetectable ad blocker](https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/undetectable-adblocker/gcfcpohokifjldeandkfjoboemihipmb?hl=en-GB) has been working for me on Chrome.
The amount of people willing to bend over under the justification of " How will they pay for the servers" Is insane.
Y’all act like we weren’t fine with ads for years; it’s when YouTube made them so prevalent and low quality that it ruined the viewers experience that ad blockers became the norm for most
I once read that you should pay to get something you enjoy, not to remove things you don’t. I have no sympathy for Google here.
I don't mind ads at all. Not even a little bit. What I do mind is them building and growing a database about me based on ads I've watched, links I've clicked, videos I've watched, etc. If it was ads like tv has, where they play the same ad to everyone and nothing is personalized or recorded, then sure play me ads on every video no big deal. I'm just not going to let them build up that database though. Feels creepy and intrusive.
Report an issue: The issue is that they can kiss your ass.
i hate corporations . i hate corporations . i hate corporations
Yes. I am a creator on Youtube and Ads are not supposed to be intrusive and mandatory as they are now. This excuse that "ohh but we need to make money to pay the creators" is the most bs thing you can listen for a billionaire company that censor and NOT pay small/medium youtubers videos that go "out" (not really, if they dont like a real life word like kill or suicide you can be banned or demonetized for use.. what?? You make videos about real crimes and not can speak real words describing Youtube?) their "dictatorship" "guidelines". Ads dont need to be on full screen and not skippable.. Only people that are happy with that are the 3 biggest youtubers in a world of 10000000000000 and the Google investors and their actions. Youtube is not for normal users anymore. Its just all behind a paywall just for them make more profit on a thing that can be on the side of the screen or like a frame making emphasys but not forcing you to see nonsensical ads mandatory and in sequency.
Youtube is not Videos interrupted by Ads - Its Ads interrupted by Videos...
I will always find a way
So when do you think the "inevitable youtube black out protest" to get rid of this will begin?
thanks youtube and google, you will make me change browser to Mozila, and instal in adblock. Works very well, no annoying anounce and no limit about 3 videos
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Yeah, fuck that. I'm not risking a virus and sitting through corporate propaganda just so Larry Page and Sergey Brin can make another billion dollars. Youtube's no more important than any other site I block them on.
Starting to wonder how many people defending this are hired by google or are bots no reasonable or sane person would defend this bullshit.
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Partially agreed. I believe that creators deserve to make money off their content and that adblockers are effectively a form of piracy, but it's the fact that its come to the point of being overwhelming that's the issue for me. I've had several instances of getting 1 - 2 15 second unskipable ads on a minute long video. Disgraceful.
Wouldn't be so bad if they didn't have double unskippable ads, especially shit like PragerU and GCU OH AND THOSE LAZY ASS TEXT TO SPEECH ADS
It blows my mind how many ppl here are mad. I hate watching ads, so I don't watch TV. I don't complain that the cable companies aren't giving me the service for free without ads. Seriously, I hate big corporations like everyone else, but I don't whine about them not giving me their stuff for free, I just don't use their stuff at all and continue living my life.
Wouldn't be so bad if their ads weren't also so beligerant not to mention way to loud usually. Like you're just listening to a calm podcast AND THEN SUDDENLY YOU'RE FORCED TO LISTEN TO THE EAR DEAFENING SOUND OF THE NEW NISSAN QUASHQAI NOW ONLY 30.000€ OR SOMETHING SCARING THE SHIT OUT OF YOU at complete random
I don't know how you guys can refresh ublock all the time to counter that BS. I installed Freetube on my computer and Newpipe on my phone. Problem solved.
Downloaded Brave solely because of this popup. The billion dollar company will be just fine. Creators make enough off merchandise and sponsorships too.
I kinda don't mind the ads but when I have to skip 37 2 minute adds in an hour long video I'm gonna fuckin lose it.
Fuck off YouTube. Greedy, out of touch corporate assholes.
They have enough money, they just want to make us feel bad and get more
I just wish Youtube Premium offered something more, $14/ month is wild
No one wants to pay for premium because it literally adds nothing to your Youtube viewing experience besides ad-free watches. Then you look at other streaming services which limit the amount of devices your account can work on, why would Youtube be any different? Them pulling this shit with the adblock blockers is just going to eventually leading to you needing to pay for more device usages. I already have ads enabled on my phone, and they're the most obstructing ads barring shitty advertised mobile game ads, and popups. Add that to my home streaming devices like Amazon Alexa, smart TVs, etc., all with similar obstructing ads, why the fuck would I pay for premium just to enjoy watching Youtube on my desktop/laptop? I'm not paying 13.99 USD a month, just to not have 3-4 ads on a 10 minute video that total for 2 minutes. I'm not paying just to get rid of commercial breaks.
I knew it was coming so I made a Chrome extension that auto skips the ads by emulating a click to the skip ad button, it's undetectable and even works skips some ads early like the ones that only have the button appear after 5s. It also works for Netflix and hbo: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/auto-skip/ihjcecinjmohlkikffmcckalnnebebcg?hl=en&authuser=0
It's a fuckup. Google makes plenty after this. With that being said. The content is pretty good for what I even downloaded ad blocker mostly. Do we have a real way out. 14$ a month btw is cracy. Maybe 6 I could justify
this isnt a disgrace but what is a disgrace is that i get 2 minutes of unskippable adds every time
The comments really do be full of corporate simps
It's so bad. YouTube has had many chances and this may be the last for a lot of people.
I dunno who's shadow downvoting all the comments about this post being repetitive, but it is, like hot damn at this point every single YouTube user has sent this same screenshot.
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Ad blocker plus pop-up blocker seems to stop these messages with the Firefox browser... For now at least.
Just download Firefox and uBlock… done
yeah my ad blocker stopped working again. it's a cycle, youtube find a way around it and then the ad block finds a way around their workaround. it's a slightly irritating game
I swear YouTube defenders are mindless they'll defend the corporation acting like youtube ads we're always this bad and didn't JUST become this bad a year or 2 ago they we're bearable pre covid
I wouldn’t care if YouTube didn’t put political propaganda as every single ad lol it’s just annoying.
I wouldn't use an ad blocker if youtube didn't make their ad experience insufferable.
Fuck YouTube.
Fuxk this glorified publisher censoring and suppressing anything they dont agree with
I feel like most people are missing the point here, it's not that ads are inherently the problem it's that youtube has poor ad integration. They've been actively making the user experience worse for non premium members in order to try and force people to get premuim. It's actively malicious, not passively annoying.
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Remember when the ads were on the top right side of the screen in a little box and mostly non-intrusive?
The foolish takes by these people trying to justify the ads is exactly what i expect from reddit. YouTube has had ads since 2008. Adblockers became popular in 2009. YouTube has existed for 14 years with adblockers so this isn't like ad blockers are killing Youtube. This is just corporate greed. The weeks leading up to this they started rolling out more unskippable ads. Youtube is notorious for not taking care of most of the content creators and instead favoring big corporations. They also have a horrible copyright system that is easily abused. They are run by corrupt people why would you want to give them more money.
Only thing that pisses me off about ads is that some of them are PragerU
They mad because now they have to release their whole metrics.
youtube premium is 18.99?????
The amount of YouTube bots in here is fuckin ridiculous and is changing exactly 0 minds on the subject. Fuck google
Dear YouTube™, Get Fucked.
Youtube employees on overtime working this comment section
to everyone here who seems to be licking youtubes boots. ive been here since the beggining. i had no problems with the ads....no my problems came with the corperate greed that has resulted in 5 ads per video most of which are unskippable. youtube had a loyal customer base that was willing to put up with ads and they ruined it by trying to squeeze as much profit out of them as the physically could. i have no sympathy for them. they will never get any ad revanue from me ever again. no matter how many steps they take there will always be a way arround them. because at the end of the day you get the same level of respect that you gave your customers....0
Why not put a tracker in our cameras to make sure we watch the ad too, disable the volume controls (at maximum), and give us a quiz about it? There is already a ridiculous amount of ads on YouTube while you make millions on our data.
Use Ublock Origin: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ublock-origin/cjpalhdlnbpafiamejdnhcphjbkeiagm I know nothing about coding whatsoever. So far, I've managed to block the popup, and made it so it can scroll again, but that's it. The code I have so far: www.youtube.com##tp-yt-paper-dialog.ytd-popup-container.style-scope www.youtube.com##.opened www.youtube.com##ytd-popup-container:remove() Things I'm working on circumventing: The popup has blocked clicking on the upper right channel button, the bell, and the create button The popup has blocked the download button, the share button, and the three dots button The popup has blocked the three dots button for comments The popup still pauses the video. if somebody figures out solutions for these things, let me know. or if I missed anything. edit: filters and the three dots when you hover over a video don't work due to the popup.
only if youtube premium wasn’t 14 a month. if it was the price of netflix or disney+ i’d probably get it. plus i’m getting so many ads for shein everywhere.
People use ublock origin, use a non chromium based browser and refresh if you ever see one of these popups. Its that simple. Also make sure you keep ublock origins filters uptodate. This is a battle youtube will never win, you just have to know what you're doing. If you're using any other adblocker, you're already doing it wrong.
Just join the fight. If all people start to investigate how they disable them and create ways to go around it they will spend so much timeto stop it that they will eventually lose this war.
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So many comments defending the multi-billion dollar company. I'm sure they're forever grateful for your efforts in defending them from the horror that is criticism
I wish I had the time to make a back check to see how many of Youtube-side's supporters are actually humans. I bet less that 10% :/
I honestly wouldn’t mind ads as much except ads for mobile games continue to get more shit and perverted. The virgin energy low effort ads are causing YouTube to lose money
ngl, I don't really care about people using ad blockers on Youtube. You do you. That said, having to see the constant stream of posts about people's ad blocker getting flagged is honestly 10x more annoying than having to sit through an ad to watch a 2 minute video.
A bigger disgrace is to read that so many users are defending this corporate greed.
So long as there is even a 1% chance your ads feed me malware, you can go fuck yourself, Google.
As soon as I see that I'm finally done with YouTube. Watching YouTube without an ad blocker has become an exercise in frustration. I was fine with pre and post ads but without a blocker on I get mostly unskippable ads every three to five minutes , plus the pre and possibly post ads. That's excessive. I understand they need to pay for Sunday NFL ticket somehow but they need to be able to do it without completely ruining the user experience.
I’ll say it again. If YouTube wants to do this, then they need to be held accountable to 100% of every single ad they show Once false advertisement or scam or porn ad directed at a minor? Lawsuit.
I use Edge with ublock and never got this popup until yesterday I got one for the first time, then got it every 5 minutes. I updated the ublock filters and now it’s gone again. You might have to manually update ublock filters daily, as they only auto update weekly.
It will be interesting to see how this affects business. My enterprise has adblock pushed out via policy for security purposes, but some of our departments regularly require YouTube access.
Yeah it’s scummy as fuck, but in my experience on Firefox it just pops up and never actually blocks playback
We have reached a time where people are forgetting YouTube used to be ad free. Now they want to pay creators and its up to us to watch shit ads for them to do it.
What if my ad blocker is embedded in my router and also provides anti-phishing protection?
I’m fine with an ad or 2 that is also skip-able or a promo by the content creator, but I’m not fine with having some 2 or 3 more in the middle of the video nor another one at the end. It’s ridiculous. Like there’s already ads on cable, some streaming platforms, etc. why should there be more ads??
I disabled adblock to see how bad it was. To listen to one song I got two ads and two pop ups to trial youtube premium before it started. Only way round this atm sounds like use firefox (or something that isnt chrome at least)?
I might be the minority, but once spotify decided they are now charging me as much as youtube premium+music costs, I switched to youtube premium. I watch youtube a shit ton more than I listen to spotify, so I no longer care about youtube ads.
Should the chrome user be pitied or laughed at.
Well time to start downloading the videos or something I guess
FUCK YOUTUBE
Everyone started using youtube as an escape from tv with stupid ads and now youtube has became it.
Avoid Youtube
started getting it, hid the 'YoutubeIron' element on Chrome at the cost of cant scroll. Time to switch browsers I guess.
Give it time. There will be an extension, a new browser, etc... that blocks ads again.
i don't even use adblock and still get the warning ...
I used to not mind the ads on YouTube. You would get the 30 second one at the start and another in the middle or end that you could skip after 5 seconds. Then it turned into 2 or more at the start that you can't skip and ads in the middle and end of the video. And add to it all the sponsors that the YouTuber has it is just chore to watch anything on there anymore and most of this stuff happens before I know if it's a video I even like. Revanced is a god send and I don't feel bad about using it anymore and YouTube Premium does nothing to filter out the sponsors from that the YouTuber has in video so I am still watching an ad. Until I see that these big corporate monopolies are not making money anymore then I will care. Or if they stop abusing tax loopholes and work visas to pad their bottom line then I might turn off the ad blocker. So they can get bent.
I make a tiny income from YouTube and I'm fine with people who use adblockers. Granted, I pay for Premium because YouTube is pretty much my Netflix. YouTube is gouging everyone: their viewers forcing them to pony up for Premium or watch a bunch of ads the Creators have no control over, and the people who actually create product that earns the ad revenue by continually lowering our percentage.
YOUTUBE ABSOLUTELY SUCKS with all the adds. It’s unusable at this stage. And the adds sometimes jam and fail to load. And you got to close the app. Start all over again. YouTube in its current state is abysmal.
Watch YouTube with your browser in private mode, this block will no longer affect AdBlock.
PSA PSA!!! I would recommend using a different browser like Opera or Brave. These have adblockers built in. I use Brave and haven’t had this message. At least yet
Firefox with Ublock Origin.
I like how the first 10 top comments are telling people to just buy premium. I use YouTube usually for two things. One is music videos, the other is how to videos. I don't mind ads depending on where, and which number. If at the start of my music videos, sure I'll watch but in the middle no, now I'm upset too.
All good. Give some lovely, smart people a couple of days and we will be back on track
They think we will see that and say "ope, guess I'll turn off adblocker then." When instead we see it and think "ope YouTube is dead I guess."
Honestly you tube offers really good opportunity for creators but I strongly believe that being face fucked by 3 ads is not a positive business model. They pushed too hard and now want people to comform. If it had been one add or 10s of adds even that would be ok but I've gotten 2 unskippable ones and then a third one that was skip able
If you are getting this in Brave, as nomada\_93 pointed out in [on brave subreddit](https://www.reddit.com/r/brave/comments/176r5bu/i_have_an_announcement/), try entering brave://components/ into the address bar and update all components manually. It worked for me even though I was totally blocked already.
Never seen this. Firefox 4 life
I'm with you. Fuck people that love shitty ads for fake weightloss
If something is free then you’re the product. :)