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Re:YouTube's new anti-adblock measures by raincole on Saturday June 21, 2025 @04:37AM (#44335785)
By this logic you lose in long term no matter what you do.

If you pay premium: they'll add ads to premium too.

If you watch ads: they'll add more ads.

If you use ad-blocker: they'll embed ads into the video.

If you use another platform: the said platform will need to monetize and you are back to square one.

Re:YouTube's new anti-adblock measures by ChromaticPanic on Saturday June 21, 2025 @05:01AM (#44335919)
You just described the evolution of every streaming platform out there
Re:YouTube's new anti-adblock measures by draugadrotten on Saturday June 21, 2025 @01:36PM (#44339255)
> If you use ad-blocker: they'll embed ads into the video.

Someone will eventually make an AI adblocker that will dynamically update the video with all ads removed or replaced. For example, let's say that I specify to my AI streaming video editor that "detect all bottles and glasses with alcohol and replace their contents with water and their labels with Liquid Death"

Similar technology will be/is already used to e.g. display a Coke can for some markets and a Beer can for other markets, depending on who paid for that market.

Re:YouTube's new anti-adblock measures by godshatter on Monday June 23, 2025 @01:42PM (#44358211)
> If you use ad-blocker: they'll embed ads into the video

If they do this then the right arrow becomes your best friend. If it's part of the stream then they have no way of blocking things so you can't skip past them. If they embed some way of notifying the app that it needs to block skipping here or there then that's what adblock would start triggering from. I'm assuming that's why they don't do it now.