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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: 0.844s | source
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ddtaylor ◴[21 Jun 25 00:02 UTC] No.44333279[source]▶
I don't care when YouTube does a buffer thing because blocking ads for me is about distractions and context switching. My cognitive load is already very high and it's extremely frustrating to have to filter out more garbage.
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paulcole ◴[21 Jun 25 00:34 UTC] No.44333459[source]▶
You could just pay the $13/month? Would save the worries about context switching further taxing your already high cognitive load? And I would expect your high cognitive load helps you earn well above $13/month?
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dleslie ◴[21 Jun 25 00:43 UTC] No.44333502[source]▶
Paying for YT doesn't remove the ads.

On the other hand, the golden era of YouTube has passed. You aren't losing out on much if you simply stop using it.

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1. yugioh3 ◴[21 Jun 25 01:25 UTC] No.44333732[source]▶
There are no ads when I use YT premium, except for the creators' Hello Fresh type segments. Which perhaps they'd be less incentivized to pursue if people didn't use ad blockers.
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2. cyberax ◴[21 Jun 25 02:05 UTC] No.44333887[source]▶
SponsorBlock will help you to get rid of those!
3. dleslie ◴[21 Jun 25 02:11 UTC] No.44333911[source]▶
It depends on the Premium tier.
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4. hombre_fatal ◴[21 Jun 25 02:18 UTC] No.44333952[source]▶
You mean just Premium Light? Still has no ads on videos.

Just sponsored shorts and banners when browsing. But we're talking about videos here.

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5. dleslie ◴[21 Jun 25 02:21 UTC] No.44333962{3}[source]▶
Shorts and music, for now. They'll undoubtedly expand it to all videos eventually.