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YouTube's new anti-adblock measures

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990 points smitop | 5 comments | 20 Jun 25 17:01 UTC | HN request time: 0.85s | source
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akersten ◴[21 Jun 25 01:03 UTC] No.44333609[source]▶
Thank you for your important work fighting this battle, it must be exhausting.

The more Google insists on forcing advertising on us, the more we should look closely at the wildly inappropriate and downright scammy ads they are hosting. If they can't leave well enough alone and look the other way on ad blocking, (which is the only way to avoid exposing myself and family to these dangerous ads), they need to be under a lot more scrutiny for the ads they choose to run.

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timmg ◴[21 Jun 25 01:06 UTC] No.44333634[source]▶
> The more Google insists on forcing advertising on us...

You can... just not visit youtube, right?

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1. akersten ◴[21 Jun 25 01:16 UTC] No.44333688[source]▶
Harder than it sounds! So much of what we interact with online winds up with YouTube in the dependency chain. Kids' coursework, how-to videos, etc. I could also just pay the $$/month to "solve" this problem, but I need my petty cash more than Google does. I'm confident the brilliant minds there can figure out how to monetize my visit even without the real-time bidding industrial complex burning my CPU cycles.
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2. grugagag ◴[21 Jun 25 02:02 UTC] No.44333877[source]▶
Download the content offline, make a playlist. You can also archive the content forever. No distractions, its organized however you want. Yes, it does take some effort but it fixes all the problems
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3. free_bip ◴[21 Jun 25 04:29 UTC] No.44334517[source]▶
So long as we're pretending to care about the Youtube TOS, offline downloading without premium is against their TOS. And even then you're only permitted to download and view offline through the YouTube phone app.
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4. akoboldfrying ◴[21 Jun 25 05:01 UTC] No.44334658[source]▶
> I need my petty cash more than Google does

I appreciate the fact that you brought up the possibility of paying for ad-free content, but frankly I don't buy this. You can either see 100% of the content for free with some mildly annoying ad content mixed in from time to time, or you can pay them a pretty small amount to not see the annoyances.

Google is a for-profit company trying to sell a product that you find valuable. Not everything they do is squeaky-clean, but this offering couldn't be much fairer, really.

5. grugagag ◴[21 Jun 25 05:06 UTC] No.44334681{3}[source]▶
I care about their TOS as much as they care about their users