YouTube’s plan backfires, people are installing better ad blockers::People are installing and uninstalling ad blockers in record high numbers as a result of YouTube’s anti-ad blocking efforts.
Called it.
I’m at the point where there’s going to have to be a collective bargaining procedure between Google and the Youtube audience before I turn my adblocker off.
I was served the same ad for the same movie every five minutes for hours on end, such that I’m never watching another Mission Impossible movie, or another movie starring Tom Cruise, ever again. For similar reasons I wouldn’t wash with Dr. Squatch soap if it was the last left in the world. Because they bothered me too much about it.
Tell you about the last internet ad I actually responded to: I saw an ad on Reddit of all places for caffeinated chocolates. I didn’t see this ad constantly, only occasionally. It wasn’t every other line, it wasn’t even every other page. It was marked as an ad, and boiled down to a business trying to communicate to potential customers that they have a product on offer. Not to psychologically damage everyone everywhere into submission. I don’t remember the company name but they had an owl logo. The fact they didn’t beat their name into my head wins them points. Give me ads where I go “Hey what was that thing I saw again?” hours later.
I was once served an hour-long lecture on computer networking as an ad. It felt like the algorithm decided “Hey this nerd that occasionally looks up Python-MQTT tutorials, let’s serve him a networking video next” but it was served as an ad, it had a Skip Ad button in the corner. I’m not sure why that happened.
Something else that bugs me is the way they treat creators. “We’re demonitizing this video, we’re not telling you why, we don’t care if it’s fair use, we’re big and you’re small, eat a dick.” If Google doesn’t operate in good faith, then I also shall not. Which I think is the last word on the subject.
Now if you’ll excuse me, I have some tables to build.
I never even got that “stop blocking ads” pop-up that people have been talking about.
I never did but my girlfriend did. We both use Ublock Origin in Firefox in the same house. I absolutely cannot seem to bypass the message even after updating her filters and purging the caches, but on my PC it’s like Google never implemented the policy. I don’t understand it.
Make sure there is only one ad blocker. Using multiple ad blockers pretty much guarantees you get the pop up.
Enhancer for Youtube has an ad blocker that has to be disabled and some addons for hiding youtube shorts can even trigger the popup.
Can somebody help me figure out how to cast YouTube from Firefox onto my Nvidia Shield? I usually just use the YouTube app on the Shield but I get ads that way. I was hoping there was a way to cast from Firefox to prevent ads. Is this possible?
I haven’t tested it myself so not sure how well it works, but Grayjay highlights it as a feature
For all the effort put into ad blockers, we could just all start supporting peertube as the “influencers” would follow. Instead we are going to war with Google who will lock out ad blockers, which will be overcome, and then they will block the new ad blockers, which will be overcome and then Google will block the latest….
This recent push is probably to support someone’s promotion. That’s where stupid corporate moves mostly come from.
Previously Google’s attitude was something like “adblocker users are cynics and don’t buy stuff anyway, so why bother showing them ads? Save the ad impression for a user who is more impressionable.”
Even with CPM ads, the advertiser prefers that they spend their budget on users who are actually open to being swayed by the ad. Adblocker users are saying up front that they won’t be. It’s bad for the advertiser to spend their budget on people who hate ads so much they go out of their way to block them.
