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YouTube is testing a more aggressive approach against ad blockers (www.androidpolice.com)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by AnonymousLlama@kbin.social to c/tech@kbin.social

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It looks like Google are pushing pretty hard on AdBlockers now. Looks like a pretty aggressive new UI from them.

I'm finding revanced for Android is still working well, but I've got no idea when that'll become less reliable

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[–] AnonymousLlama@kbin.social 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah that's the thing. I'm happy to watch reasonable ads but the concept of reasonable seems to continuously shift. I was happy with a single 15s ad occasionally but it's:

2x 10s ads
1x 15s ad and 1x 10s ad (with a skip at 5s in)
1x 15s as (with maybe a skip at 5s)

Like the pattern and the frequency are all over the place and it feels like I'm constantly watching ads.

I get that need to pay for traffic / usage, but I'm watching 720p / 1080p at compressed quality. How much do they truly need

[–] ZickZack@kbin.social 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And don't forget that even after that you still have to watch baked-in "This video is sponsored by <insert shady company here>" adds since the actual revenue that gets passed to creators from youtube is so low that to keep the ship afloat they have to look for additional revenue streams.

[–] Davel23@kbin.social 9 points 1 year ago

That's what Sponsorblock is for.