YouTube tests blocking videos unless you disable ad blockers

Re:YouTube tests blocking videos unless you disable ad blockers by gentleman11 on Wednesday May 10, 2023 @07:00PM (#35894643)

I don't like paying a platform that rose to prominence because of piracy, just so that I can watch IP created by other people without youtube inserting a really intense number of ads into the experience. And all the vidoes are ads anyway, it's just via sponsorships and affiliate links now.

It feels deeply icky

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Re:YouTube tests blocking videos unless you disable ad blockers by jjice on Wednesday May 10, 2023 @07:53PM (#35895266)

> I don't like paying a platform that rose to prominence because of piracy

Is that true? Yeah it's there, more so in the past, but I have to imagine that was a tiny amount of their viewership. I'd imagine most viewing is from individual channels of real people.

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Re:YouTube tests blocking videos unless you disable ad blockers by porkbeer on Wednesday May 10, 2023 @08:41PM (#35895732)

Pirated shows are still a mainstay. I watch pirate ufc content often, and its not even hard to find.

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Re:YouTube tests blocking videos unless you disable ad blockers by mike741 on Wednesday May 10, 2023 @09:20PM (#35896048)

can you link a specific example? youtube's anti-piracy measures are quite strict in my experience.

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