YouTube really hates ad blockers, starts skipping and muting videos

[Deltron]

YouTube really hates ad blockers, starts skipping and muting videos

Users are reporting that YouTube now skips videos and mutes their audio if they are accessing the service with an ad blocker. Read on!

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TL;DR

• YouTube has begun skipping videos for users attempting to access the service with an active ad blocker.
• If you manage to get past the skipping videos, YouTube also mutes the video.
• Users report success in bypassing these measures with different ad blockers,

Google getting brazy as hell

 

[theoretic]

 

[Luke Cage]

They doing too much, Do their advertiser pay them to post the ads or only pay for clicks on ads?
Because skipping an ad is no different than changing the channel when a commercial comes on the tv.

 

[Fillerguy]

So in an effort to increase ad revenue they're making vids unwatchable.

Genius

 

[MajesticLion]

 

[Batsute]

Fortune 500 companies depending on the Ad revenue model just shows you have no way to truly monetize your product.

Thank you corporate greed for reigniting my love of Sea.

 

[Rice N Beans]

Society messed up letting this ad company run the web.

 

[Don Homer]

bytch ass move

 

[DaSk8D00D]

Yall still punching the air in 2024 because free YouTube has ads? That battle has long been lost alongside Limewire downloads and AOL Messenger. Man if yall don't grow up and cough up that monthly payment

 

[the elastic]

Is the USA the only country that goes this far with laying the red carpet down for advertisers?

This country treats advertisers with more reverence than senators and judges

 

[Roid Jones]

I have faith in the revanced and ublock teams

 

[Cladyclad]

I have faith in the revanced and ublock teams

This seems like it will work

 

[Saysumthinfunnymike]

They haven't stopped me yet. I haven't seen an ad on YouTube in forever.

 

[MJ Truth]

They doing too much, Do their advertiser pay them to post the ads or only pay for clicks on ads?
Because skipping an ad is no different than changing the channel when a commercial comes on the tv.

It’s actually a lot different though.

 

[Ed MOTHERFUCKING G]

Yall still punching the air in 2024 because free YouTube has ads? That battle has long been lost alongside Limewire downloads and AOL Messenger. Man if yall don't grow up and cough up that monthly payment

YouTube premium is one of the *only* that is legitimately worth it, better and a superior experience