[HN Gopher] YouTube's 'Ad blockers not allowed' pop-up
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YouTube's 'Ad blockers not allowed' pop-up
Author : netzego
Score : 13 points
Date : 2023-05-11 21:02 UTC (2 hours ago)
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| xpdx wrote:
| I got tired of keeping up the arms race with ad blockers. So now
| I just pay them. So, it worked on me I guess. I watch youtube
| more than Netflix and I pay for that every month too.
| jjeaff wrote:
| What effort is required on your part to keep up? I have had
| uBlock Origin for years and it keeps itself updated. I don't
| think I ever see ads.
| pseudoramble wrote:
| My main worry is not so much this change, but rather when they
| decide that this also applies to Premium. I've been paying for a
| bit, and run an ad blocker. I'm concerned that it will be too
| tempting start putting ads back into Premium and require ad
| blockers be disabled. Of course I'm speculating, but this is the
| scenario where I'm out.
|
| I could also see them splitting Premium into "Basic Premium",
| "Grand Premium", and "Ultimate Premium" where one shows some ads
| and the other shows "minimal" ads.
| kevincox wrote:
| Makes me really happy that I recently subscribed to Nebula. I had
| YouTube Premium for a while but the experience kept getting
| worse. They removed email notifications, added more and more ads
| for "premium features" that I wasn't interested in and kept
| making offline downloads a pain (YouTube DL is usually a better
| experience). On top of that the recommendations are awful and
| search results have random unrelated ads for "recommended videos"
| inline with the thing I was actually searching for. At some point
| I felt mistreated enough and stopped my subscription.
|
| Nebula is great. It feels like they are actually just trying to
| allow me to watch videos, no nonsense. I have found a few bugs
| and the support team is nice and responsive. I can't imagine what
| else I would want.
| JohnFen wrote:
| Do you use their app?
|
| I used Nebula for a while a year or two ago, but their Android
| app was almost unusably bad, so I cancelled my subscription.
| I'm curious if it's any better now.
| kevincox wrote:
| I do use their app. About 50/50 Firefox and the Android app.
|
| There is a pretty annoying bug regarding Chromecast (opening
| a link when already connected to a device doesn't work
| properly) that I reported but apparently they are working on
| it. But other than that I haven't had any issues.
| faebi wrote:
| I would be happy if Youtube Premium contained some form of
| sponsor blocking/skipping. I don't wanna pay not to see ads, and
| then being fed them anyway.
| hoppyhoppy2 wrote:
| See also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35892512
| CommanderData wrote:
| YouTube ReVanced is magic and has better features than Premium.
|
| [0] https://github.com/revanced/revanced-manager
| rafark wrote:
| "There is zero chance I am ever deactivating it or paying for
| Premium now, that ship has sailed."
|
| Hmm, if google starts banning accounts they would deactivate it
| in a heartbeat. This is what I'm mostly afraid of when using
| adblockers. I don't want to wake up to a banned account.
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