Google admits cracking down on people using ad blockers

Re:Google admits cracking down on people using ad blockers by beerandt on Friday November 24, 2023 @03:51PM (#38408167)

I paid for the YouTube premium that came with the old Google Music subscription, and the problem was it regularly showed ads anyway, especially in the kids stuff.

So then we still needed ad-blocking, which broke Google in a way that it tried to show even more ads (ad blocking probably disrupting the ability to track a 'premium' user/client).

So we're back to relying completely on ad-blockers, and have completely cut out any Google or YouTube sourced content for the kids.

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Re:Google admits cracking down on people using ad blockers by Workaccount2 on Friday November 24, 2023 @03:58PM (#38408266)

I'm curious how you got ads with premium. I have not seen any.

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Re:Google admits cracking down on people using ad blockers by ilrwbwrkhv on Friday November 24, 2023 @04:02PM (#38408300)

YouTube kids show ads even with a premium account. Not a surprise since Google is on its way down anyways.

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Re:Google admits cracking down on people using ad blockers by tyfon on Friday November 24, 2023 @04:06PM (#38408340)

I have never seen this with my kids subaccounts on yt kids or regular yt. I've had premium for a couple years now.

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Re:Google admits cracking down on people using ad blockers by John7149 on Friday November 24, 2023 @05:18PM (#38409008)

Maybe his account is not true premium as tied to old GM account. I had a few months last year. Quite pleasant compare to usual "naked" YT. But nowhere as good as vanced and then revanced, UBO, VPN+Adguard, pi-hole, and tonnes of fake Google account created from all over the world and outsourced the passworded access to 3rd world to be abused so to confuse Google algorithm. Since using all these to thwart Google tracking and ads, I stopped YT premium after 3rd months as really no point I can do better than their premium service - and cheaper too. I thought premium frees up my time to tinker but they still track and occasionally ads do get thru.

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Re:Google admits cracking down on people using ad blockers by asmor on Friday November 24, 2023 @04:09PM (#38408378)

did you use brand subaccounts? those aren't included in premium.

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Re:Google admits cracking down on people using ad blockers by okdood64 on Friday November 24, 2023 @04:14PM (#38408427)

I use one 24/7, and it is definitely using Premium.

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