YouTube is waging a war against adblockers...and losing.
  • YouTube is intensifying efforts to combat adblockers, including blocking video playback and warning users of potential account suspension.
  • Increased ads on YouTube have driven many users to adblockers, hurting both YouTube’s ad revenue and content creators reliant on ad-based income.
  • Despite these measures, many users are leaving YouTube or finding workarounds, leading creators to seek alternative revenue streams off-platform.
    • SirEDCaLot@lemmy.todayEnglish
      64·
      3 months ago

      This battle was lost before it started. Sad thing is, if they weren’t so goddamn obnoxious with the ads it wouldn’t even need to be a battle. As it stands, YouTube without ad blocker is damn near unwatchable.

      • CileTheSane@lemmy.caEnglish
        28·
        3 months ago

        The guy who decided to start the battle increased ad revenue for a week so he got his bonus, that’s all that matters.
        “I’ll glady tank YouTube’s revenue tomorrow for an extra dollar today.”

      • mechoman444@lemmy.worldEnglish
        11·
        3 months ago

        Absolutely! Everything on YouTube is somehow predicated to getting you exposed to some kind of advertising. Absolutely everything!

        They’ve min maxed it so hard that without the various plugins that I use in Firefox YouTube would be almost completely unusable.