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Did youtube give in already? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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I use youtube across different devices with the same account. sometimes, i even use it in multiple browser profiles or apps on the same device (with the account logged in).

the ad reminder got me. it actually stopped serving any youtube video on my laptop. so i made a new profile in firefox, logged in, and it was fine. for a couple days.

so i made a new profile, logged in, and... was foiled. but not to be deterred, i did what any reasonable person would do: i sought out one of the DOZENS of alternative frontends and used youtube's recommendation algorithm on the main site to pull videos from the alternative frontend.

for one day.

today, on my laptop, with my old profile, never changing logins or browser settings, youtube started working again.

did we win?

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Does Google have no issues with ad blocking as long as you pay for YouTube premium? I have premium because it's included with my YouTube music subscription but I still use uBlock Origin in Firefox. I have never seen any requests for me to disable it while on YouTube or any other Google owned service.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Obviously, why would they discourage a paying customer?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Why make money off me once if they can make money off me twice.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

because in such case they are risking making no money off you

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They will still be able to make money off selling my online profile and serving ads to me even if I block them....

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

sure, but you could cancel your subscription

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

I use uBlock on Firefox and never got any kind of notification either. Not a paying customer.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I have YouTube Premium and use the included ad-blocker of OperaGX. Never had that pop up and my YouTube runs like it always has.

I think once you pay for Premium they don't care anymore of you have an ad-blocker running.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Yeah, both YouTube and the creators get way more money from you paying for premium than even watching hours of ads per day. Google demanding you disable ad block after you paid them would effectively amount to biting the hand that feeds them.