I know reddit is low hanging fruit, but I just can’t with these dweebs.
Something has changed. Using an adblocker goes against the YouTube ToC, so Google has started to detect them. You need to disable Adblock for YouTube, and it should go back to normal.
fuck google for doing this.
Well, Google has every right to do so. It has to pay the content creators for their work, so people need to pay either (as you and I do) through Premium or by having advertisements. When people use an ad-blocker to watch YouTube, they are freeriding on the creators’ work, which is disrespectful to say the least.
why yes, I talk about people who use ad blocker to not have their consciousness invaded by advertisements using “welfare queen” language. how did you know?
They don’t pay creators on YouTube as much as they used to.
I’m not surprised. People are blocking ads all over the place.
YouTube has recently been cracking down on ad-blockers, because they deprive content creators of their rightful fees. Recent changes have caused ad-blockers to misbehave.
Or just, you know, pay for the content? It’s called YouTube Premium. People don’t complain about Netflix or Amazon Prime charging money.
Anyway, it’s your decision what you choose to do. I choose to pay.
I still haven’t had any issues with this using firefox, uBlock origin (no other adblockers or they trip on each other), protonVPN, and never logging in. Age-gated videos I hit with youtube-dlp and it’s no issue.
they suddenly warned me that i could only watch 3 videos with ublock origin enabled on Firefox before they would block my access a couple months ago… same with my partner and also her dad. we just clear cookies or sign out and reset the limit every time it comes up… they seem to have given up for now… or they’re trying to find another way to harass ad blocking users
It’s weird, I just never encounter this stuff. I also have firefox set up to automatically clear my history and log-ins, so maybe that helps?
