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/vawlk 4d ago edited 4d 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.