YouTube test threatens to block viewers if they continue using ad blockers

I’ve never understood why blockers “block” ads in a way detectable by the site. Just accept it as if you were going to show it, but throw it away.

41 posted on 10/15/2023 1:59:53 PM PDT by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)

I’ll have too quit watching some because they put a commercial nearly every five minutes. It shouldn’t be worse than network TV but some are.

42 posted on 10/15/2023 2:00:12 PM PDT by Irenic

Watch a video on Youtube is BS.Your watching at minimum of 5 Ads in a 10 minute video.

Youtube claims that watching their ads pays their video producers when in reality we know that Youtube defrauds these producers by cancelling their payments especially when they say something Youtube hates. Like Shouting that the Covide Vaccines is deadly.

I may watch video on Youtube but I’ll do my best to kill their ads because they’re wasting my bandwidth.

43 posted on 10/15/2023 2:13:01 PM PDT by puppypusher (The world is going to the dogs.)

I’ve been getting that message, too, in the last few days.

44 posted on 10/15/2023 2:17:14 PM PDT by Tired of Taxes

Ill never pay for a subscription now.

45 posted on 10/15/2023 2:17:28 PM PDT by Delta 21 (If anyone is treasonous, it is those who call me such.)

I want an ad blocker, for popups anyway, that creates a second tab which emulates everything on the first tab, EXCEPT the popups. The user watches the popup-free second tab, while the website allows full access to its content, because the browser (truthfully) reports that it is displaying 100% of the website’s ad content on the first tab.

Would not work for ads like YouTube’s, that interrupt the entire content stream, but it would be great for popups.

Maybe I should have patented that idea, before posting it.

46 posted on 10/15/2023 2:18:26 PM PDT by Pilsner

I will stop the Ad-Blocker when YouTube stops selling my personal information. It is only fair.

47 posted on 10/15/2023 2:19:55 PM PDT by Bryan24

I include the ads displayed in boxes in term popup

48 posted on 10/15/2023 2:20:00 PM PDT by Pilsner

I pay $100 a month for every single packet of data that comes through my internet cable. Thats enough!

49 posted on 10/15/2023 2:20:50 PM PDT by know.your.why (<>)

Cable TV was pay for no commercials-

Similar, to YT it will eventually be pay for ads as well-

besides GOOG’s entire business built on theft of our data and colluding with big tech.

Appeal to law and order is not convincing to me.

50 posted on 10/15/2023 2:21:18 PM PDT by Freest Republican (This space for rent)

From my cold, dead hands.

51 posted on 10/15/2023 2:27:56 PM PDT by yuleeyahoo (“Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain!” - the deepstate)

To: ducttape45; Chad C. Mulligan; ProgressingAmerica

I don't agree that video is for illiterates, and that reading text is the only way to go. I think it is a narrow view, especially given that humans are primarily visual in many respects.

Video has its uses. It is just another pathway into the brain for information. And like most things, video has a duality. One could use it to watch cat videos, but can also use it to watch the linked video below that describes the construction of an 18th century ship of the line.

This is a prime example:

How an 18th Century Sailing Battleship Works

I am reasonably well read on ship construction as the history of naval ship architecture has been a favorite subject of mine for some time.

But in all the books I have read, none of them were able to impart knowledge that I picked up in this one video linked to above. Sure, I knew all the terms, and have seen them to a greater or lesser degree in real life (such as going below decks in a ship like the USS Constitution or seeing the modern construction of smaller vessels) but seeing it visually, presented in 3D imparted knowledge that I could have never fully gained otherwise.

Also, as I have aged, I can no longer read as I once did, and the medical profession has been unable to help me. I simply cannot read more than 10 minutes at a stretch, and this has been a hardship for me. I have taken to audiobooks in the last 20 years, and just began dictating audiobooks last year (This thread introduces a book I have been working on for about a year (prompted and helped by our fellow FReeper ProgressingAmerica) New audiobook release: The Life and Times of Joseph Warren

I have thousands of audiobooks now, and I hoped that listening to enough of them would better enable me to make one that is engaging rather than one that people stop listening to due to the technique of the person dictating, but...I cannot tell for myself. I will have to wait to see what people think.

I know I have belabored the point, and I apologize for that, but I simply believe there is more than one way to get information into the human mind. I miss reading, and most other things are inferior to it, but...they have their place too, IMO.

52 posted on 10/15/2023 2:29:14 PM PDT by rlmorel ("If you think tough men are dangerous, just wait until you see what weak men are capable of." JBP)

To: foundedonpurpose

Just switch to a Brave browser

I am using Brave and got the message today also.

53 posted on 10/15/2023 2:29:30 PM PDT by Bearshouse (Malo periculosam, libertatem quam quietam servitutem. *Thomas Jefferson)

On our not-so-smart Tee Vee, whenever we bring up yoo toob, the ads are inserted in the videos and have become insufferable.

yoo toob can go entertain itself.

54 posted on 10/15/2023 2:31:07 PM PDT by sauropod (I will stand for truth even if I stand alone.)

55 posted on 10/15/2023 2:31:41 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)

Duckduckgo doesn’t have any of its own videos...it has a video search feature that finds videos from a variety of sources...primarily YouTube.

56 posted on 10/15/2023 2:34:56 PM PDT by Republican Wildcat

To: Freest Republican

YouTube was better before Google bought it...as are most things prior to a larger company taking them over. PlutoTV was better prior to Viacom buying them out.

57 posted on 10/15/2023 2:36:12 PM PDT by Republican Wildcat

I just started seeing it today, in fact. However, I’ve watched more than three videos from YouTube today, as well.

58 posted on 10/15/2023 2:40:42 PM PDT by ro_dreaming (Who knew "Idiocracy", "1984", "Enemy of the State", and "Person of Interest" would be non-fiction?)

To: foundedonpurpose

Brave will be blocked in their plan.

59 posted on 10/15/2023 2:49:51 PM PDT by steve86 (Numquam accusatus, numquam ad curiam ibit, numquam ad carcerem™)

nor will i pay to read a single article. I just move on. I suspect most people do the same.

I always move the article to Archive.ph and then read it for free.

60 posted on 10/15/2023 2:52:53 PM PDT by gitmo

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