Super Aggressive YouTube Ad Blocker Ban Policy

swordtrombonefish

swordtrombonefish

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Started this week with a warning that Ad Blockers were banned (which they were not until they started this campaign) and now you can only watch 3 videos before you are actually blocked from watching a video. Subscribe or get your sorry ass away from viewing our (well someone else's) content. Greed on greed.

Probably a way to get around this with VPNs etc but it's a pain in the ass.
 
Subscribe to YouTube Premium via Turkey for about £1 per month. It also includes YouTube Music.
 
Nano said:
Subscribe to YouTube Premium via Turkey for about £1 per month. It also includes YouTube Music.
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Won’t work for much longer. Google aren’t stupid. They are requiring payment through a card registered in the country of subscription. So unless you have a card registered to an address in Turkey….

I decided to just subscribe to Premium. I watch loads of YouTube and Premium works out at 43p a day.

It’s an infinitely better experience without ads.
 
sherlock1969 said:
Won’t work for much longer. Google aren’t stupid. They are requiring payment through a card registered in the country of subscription. So unless you have a card registered to an address in Turkey….

I decided to just subscribe to Premium. I watch loads of YouTube and Premium works out at 43p a day.

It’s an infinitely better experience without ads.
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I always insisted that I would never subscribe to YouTube premium but the constant ads are pushing me towards biting the bullet and subscribing. I have think in the end there’s hopefully a lot more platforms which will inevitably compete and drive the (YouTube) costs down.
 
Trouble is that it takes so much time for creators and music etc to re-home their content - there's rumble, and X but the latter is prone to the whims of Musk himself

Plus if the content is on YouTube they will likely sue for some reason initially - over time if content is not theirs and they have no legal right to object to another platform hosting it, things may get easier / cheaper, but I imagine they would add their dissenting voice to other platforms hosting things they have had exclusive access to to-date
 
If you are not logged in and clear cookies you can get to stuff - at least for now - but that will change I suspect
There is someone on Reddit who said they are also looking at location hacks - so the Turkey thing may be short lived
 
Expat Smoggie said:
I always insisted that I would never subscribe to YouTube premium but the constant ads are pushing me towards biting the bullet and subscribing. I have think in the end there’s hopefully a lot more platforms which will inevitably compete and drive the (YouTube) costs down.
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I was the same but I’m watching more and more YouTube content on the TV over time so I bit the bullet and started the free trial last month. You don’t realise how many ads you watch until they’re not there anymore. Unskippable ads seem to be more common too these days. There are other little things too like being able to keep the audio playing on my phone when the screen is off. It’s not going to be worth it for a lot of people but I’ll be keeping it.
 
If you use youtube through brave browser you can turn your phone screen off but still play audio. Works for me on old huawei anyway.
Not just youtube either any streaming video
 
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I use these - which can easily be downloaded:
Down load all of the above - use Startpage as your browser [not Edge / Google / Bing].
Ghostery and Iron Vest* are particularly useful - *store and encrypt your passwords and accounts.
They are effective and free - but have a Premium upgrade if you want to use it.
Also use Malwarebytes basics which is particularly effective.
 
It's the way of the world with subscription services. Try to squeeze as much money out of its subscribers as possible.

It gets very expensive subscribing to all these services, then they add on extras all the time. Like a stealth tax.

Adverts coming to Netflix soon. Amazon music, pay extra for unlimited songs, more for extra devices. Even ITV X has an advert free subscription.
 
Sheriff_John_Bunnell_ret said:
I just set my VPN to a random foreign country then get amused by the foreign language ones.

Wurdle-wurdle bing bong. Clibitty cloop. Murdle wurdle bingle bop. Chris waddle.
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That reminds me of my 1st ukraine trip last year, me and my co-driver were in stiches. Just left the radio find random channels while driving through Europe. All played English songs but the presenters were hilarious. The Germans I am sure were dubbing porn.
 
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