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YouTube's new anti-adblock measures

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990 points smitop | 14 comments | 20 Jun 25 17:01 UTC | HN request time: 0.002s | source | bottom
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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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1. simianwords ◴[21 Jun 25 05:51 UTC] No.44334895[source]▶
Idk man instead of freeloading how about paying for the service? I generally avoid dismissive comments like these but I think it needs to be said.

If you don’t like ads pay for the service. You don’t deserve content for free.

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2. tonyedgecombe ◴[21 Jun 25 10:17 UTC] No.44336270[source]▶
Even if you pay for YouTube you will still see ads inserted by the content creators.
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3. vikramkr ◴[21 Jun 25 12:09 UTC] No.44336943[source]▶
That's not up to YouTube, that's what the creator is doing.
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4. tonyedgecombe ◴[21 Jun 25 12:38 UTC] No.44337121{3}[source]▶
YouTube could stop it if they wanted.
5. johnisgood ◴[21 Jun 25 12:42 UTC] No.44337137{3}[source]▶
The creators must specify the start and end timestamp of the ad (some do), so you would be allowed to skip it easily.
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6. delecti ◴[21 Jun 25 15:34 UTC] No.44338344[source]▶
No, this is clearly a false equivalence.

You see the content you choose to click on. Should my premium membership mean that Youtube blocks me from viewing Superbowl commercials the day after? Or movie trailers? Premium is simply paying Youtube so that Youtube will not show you Youtube's ads.

7. noqc ◴[21 Jun 25 16:24 UTC] No.44338748[source]▶
You are no more freeloading by ignoring the ads they serve you than by watching them.
8. Lapel2742 ◴[21 Jun 25 18:34 UTC] No.44339696[source]▶
I start paying them when they start paying me for my data.
9. aprilthird2021 ◴[21 Jun 25 19:15 UTC] No.44340008[source]▶
So what? It's still paying to see less ads. If ads bother you, pay
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10. Tijdreiziger ◴[21 Jun 25 19:46 UTC] No.44340230{4}[source]▶
You can if you have Premium. If you start manually skipping forward, the UI gives you a ‘Jump ahead’ button that skips straight to the end of the segment (based on crowd-sourced data, it seems).
11. mystified5016 ◴[22 Jun 25 15:07 UTC] No.44347504[source]▶
I don't think Google deserves money for ai generated ads for fake boner pills.

Google already makes untold amounts of money from spying on me. Yesterday I started seeing new recommended videos related to a show I watched on my private jellyfin server.

Google spies on me everywhere, tracks me across the open internet and my local network, then sells this data to whoever for God knows how much money and you want to tell me I owe Google even more money?

Buddy you need some perspective.

12. tonyedgecombe ◴[23 Jun 25 15:35 UTC] No.44356844{3}[source]▶
>If ads bother you, pay

I have paid but I still see ads.

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13. jama211 ◴[24 Jun 25 14:00 UTC] No.44366364[source]▶
This is a silly criticism, but for the record the sponsorblock extension does a great job at skipping these.
14. jama211 ◴[26 Jun 25 19:12 UTC] No.44390374{4}[source]▶
Stop playing dumb