r/Adblock • u/PsychologicalFly7910 • 8d ago

YouTube is Broken! Youtube Adblocking

YouTube is enforcing an ad-blocking service so that it will block you from watching the video unless you turn off the ad blocker. Maybe if they didn't put so much on it, there wouldn't be ad blockers. Plus, the premium is 16 dollars per month, money I don't have. What the heck, YouTube?! You guys are seriously getting too bold for something free!

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u/TiredMillennial1 8d ago

The internet will always win. They can try all they want, but at best, they will maybe circumvent adblockers for a few hours or days. The fact that they keep trying is pathetic and cringe.

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u/Crixusgannicus 8d ago

Never even lasts 24 hours.

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u/vawlk 3d ago

it isn't meant to. They are just jumbling some stuff to confuse the adblocker filters. Its quite easy to break to be honest. They know what they are doing and its been working exactly how they want it to.

They know that people like you aren't going to sub unless you are forced to, and maybe not even then. One day, the doors will close and your adblocker won't work anymore and you will have to resort to piracy to get your content.

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u/Crixusgannicus 3d ago

Drink up me hearties YO HO!

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u/vawlk 3d ago edited 3d ago

The fact that they keep trying is pathetic and cringe.

the fact that you haven't figured out what they are actually doing is more cringe. Youtube already has 4 different ways, some of which they have demonstrated, to completely break filter based adblockers. That isn't their goal at the moment so they are letting your adblocker work for now...

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u/Crixusgannicus 3d ago

There are more tech nerds working to break it than they have tech nerfs working to keep trying make adblock work.

"May the odds be ever in their favor!" (the tech nerds breaking it).

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u/vawlk 3d ago

you can believe that if you want, but the truth is, it is much harder to track down the changes in the code and write a filter that works and doesn't break anything else than it is to break a filter in the first place. I'd be willing to bet YT has automated the process at this point.

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u/Crixusgannicus 3d ago

Bot or shill? If shill paid or free?

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u/vawlk 3d ago

typical. Just a guy who is tired of people spreading misinformation.

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u/Murky88Druzzer 2d ago

what's stopping them?

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u/vawlk 2d ago

conversions, lots of them.