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YouTube's new anti-adblock measures

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990 points smitop | 3 comments | 20 Jun 25 17:01 UTC | HN request time: 0.458s | source
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felineflock ◴[21 Jun 25 14:07 UTC] No.44337726[source]▶
There are 3 primary undesirability aspects of ads:

1) ads as irrelevant intrusions (in spite of all data Google collects, ads are mostly irrelevant for any person)

2) ads as ugly or blockers of beauty

3) ads as thieves of attention or downright theft (scam ads, illegal products)

Then, should we pay to get rid of ads or not? Two opposite opinions:

1) paying YouTube support creators

2) paying YouTube rewards the "shitification" of the platform

But even for those who pay there are issues: the content creator's own sponsorships, shorts, the risk of account banning by Google.

Then how about compensating creators directly? (Patreon or PayPal for example)

What I don't get is the questioning on the morality of ad blocking. No one should be obligated to watch an ad in one's own device, regardless of whatever "Terms of Service" (which is not a contract). It may be unfair to the content creator who relies on that revenue though.

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1. bayindirh ◴[21 Jun 25 14:11 UTC] No.44337746[source]▶
> the content creator's own sponsorships, shorts...

Many of the people I watch add "jump ahead" buttons for these sections now, which is neat.

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2. immibis ◴[21 Jun 25 14:35 UTC] No.44337919[source]▶
Install the Sponsorblock extension. It does this automatically, provided someone watched the video before you and told it where the sponsor is. It can also, optionally, skip over "like and subscribe!", "buy my merch", intro and outro jingles, and other potentially low-value segments.
3. enragedcacti ◴[21 Jun 25 17:06 UTC] No.44339060[source]▶
It's actually YouTube that adds those as a feature for Premium subscribers. It infers the locations automatically using viewing data.