Google intensifies fight against YouTube adblockers - gHacks Tech News
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Google just announced that it is intensifying its fight against adblockers on YouTube and specifically against third-party YouTube apps.

Google warns users of these apps that their experience may deteriorate soon. They may “experience buffering issues” or see errors such as “the following content is not available on this app” when trying to watch videos.

Similar to Google Search, ads have become insufferable for many users of the service. There are too many of them, they may break the viewing experience, and they may show inappropriate content.

YouTube Premium is expensive. What weights more for some users is that its functionality is severely limited when compared to third-party apps.

The cat and mouse game continues.

For those looking to avoid ads or improve privacy, here are some options for free, open source, privacy-friendly frontends to YouTube without advertisements:

https://www.privacyguides.org/en/frontends/#youtube

  • gian @lemmy.grys.itEnglish
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    7 months ago

    You need to pay for services you use. I’m exhausted with online entitlement that it all should be free.

    So, why Youtube Premium has ads ?

      • baru@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        7 months ago

        Loads of videos have ads in there. They’re put in there by the content creators. This as YouTube doesn’t pay enough. YouTube premium doesn’t block those.

        It’s strange that you haven’t noticed those.

        • RealFknNito@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          7 months ago

          You know what’s really strange? That you think not paying YouTube would make it so they could give their creators enough to where they didn’t need to take outside sponsors. Almost like YouTube has limited or even no control over creators having third party sponsors but you still blaming them for it.

          • baru@lemmy.worldEnglish
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            7 months ago

            That you think not paying YouTube would make it so they could give their creators enough to where they didn’t need to take outside sponsors.

            YouTube has 30 billion revenue a year. You make a claim about what I think but I didn’t claim it, nor did you back up that things would change.

            Your claim is like the trickle down economic policy, which initially was meant as a joke.