YouTube Accidentally Made Ad Blockers More Powerful

In this video I discuss how YouTube fighting ad blockers is actually making ad blocking extensions and browsers more powerful, and how there is a long history of things like this happening on the internet "The Streisand Effect" and even before the internet.

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[gungun]

Showing ads on "Demonetized" videos and not paying out creators was the turning point for me. Thankfully, it's no more than a game of cat and mouse.

[toxicdragon]

Youtube ads used to be tolerable. But when YouTube started chaining ads together as well as making them unskippable, that's what drove me to get an adblocker. The fact that their ads became more aggressive, more intrusive, and more disruptive just further added reason to have an adblocker.

[panqueque]

The fact that people are more willing to pay for a premium adblocker instead of paying for youtube premium is a clear sign that this war is already lost for youtube.

[SICARiO_H]

YouTube: "Ad blockers are against our Terms Of Service"
Also YouTube: allows ads that are grossly misleading, sexual content, scams, click farms, etc.

[paulavadao-fbko]

Fun fact: Ublock Origin still blocks ads, and every time YT changes the system to make it not block them, Ublock just updates a few hours later.

[henrymach]

The problem is not ONLY the amount and frequency of ads. The fact that youtube finds every excuse to not pay the creators also contributes to the bad blood.

[hey_bucklebob]

The fact that people are prepared to spend money to remove ads, but not to YouTube is a clear sign they’re doing it wrong.

[Valyona]

This was a tremendous blunder for YouTube. YouTube has forgotten their place in the entertainment and streaming scene. If anything, this has made everyone double down on using AdBlockers. They've played themselves.

[capitalofTX]

“Adblockers violate YouTube’s Terms of Service”

Okay, and YouTube violates our safety and privacy.

[dany_fg]

The biggest problem for them is that unlike most of the corporate heads in there, ad blocker programmers are smart.

[ActivelyVacant]

I don't see ad blockers as a convenience but a necessity. Internet ads have a history for being invasive, deceptive, or straight up malignant. And Google has a major chunk of responsibility for generating this perspective.

[megwatts]

A beautiful piece of irony: I recently started getting those "3 video limit" pop-ups on YouTube. I Google-search a solution. Google sends me to, of all places, YouTube which has a plethora of vids about ad-blockers. Double-down irony: YouTube's algorithm has determined that I really like videos about ad-blockers and now proposes more and more of them. So now, in the end, I have an updated ad-blocker running on YouTube and no more ads or pop-ups. Well played, YouTube!

[amaruqlonewolf]

People willing to pay the Adblock developers instead of YouTube for their premium version says quite a lot about how poor their marketing tactics are. Threatening someone with a blaring message and then immediately advertising your product within the same threat, "It's illegal to remove ads for free! Pay us 13 bucks or sack off!" is never going to sell your product.

[murkas]

They aren't desperate for money. They're desperate for *more* money. The greed of large companies knows no bounds.

[Ginfidel]

Louis Rossmann said it best: YouTube is basically looking for quarters between the couch cushions at this point, and that's a pretty bad sign for a business to be doing that

[RandomGuy]

Moral of the story: Don't anger the internet. You WILL regret it.

Edit: Notice how YT raised the price of both the monthly and annual YT Premium subscriptions, and now they're trying to prevent ad blockers. Coincidence? I THINK NOT!

[mousermind]

Rule 19: The more you hate it, the stronger it gets.
Keep hating those adblockers, YT. They'll come back stronger than you can possibly imagine.

[DHD]

Made adblockers more aggressive, made users aware they could block ads, pissed people off, and made people care more about what they share with websites, good job!

[fredhurst]

Speaking from personal experience, the first time I ever installed and used ad blocker for YT was when they (fairly recently) changed their ad mechanics, making it impossible to fast forward to run all the ads in advance, then rewind and view the content uninterrupted. This coincided with also dropping banner ads, which unlike video ads, do not stop the video in uncomfortable spots like in the middle of a sentence. Like many have said, YT just does this to themselves.

[brentramsten]

something that was particularly hilarious was that some of the adblockers were not blocking ads for other adblockers out of solidarity.... truly they have awakened the beast