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YouTube is Losing The War Against Adblockers (www.howtogeek.com)

submitted 3 weeks ago by AnActOfCreation@programming.dev to c/technology@lemmy.world

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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.

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[–] MrVilliam@lemmy.world 22 points 3 weeks ago (12 children)

Pro tip: open YouTube in Chrome, signed into your YouTube account. Allow the algorithm and your subs to continue recommending videos. Find one you wanna see. Copy link address. Paste it into Firefox with adblock, not signed into Google/YouTube. Prosper.

Just watched a YouTube video on my PS5 earlier today while cooking a food and saw for the first time that they will shoot an ad with a "next" button that skips to another ad, and then there's a "skip" button countdown. Ridiculous. I wouldn't bother with adblock if the ads were reasonable.

Here's a free idea, YouTube: build in the ability to add videos to a simple temporary queue and then only put ads in at the very start or very end of videos so they aren't intrusive.

[–] TheGalacticVoid@lemm.ee 2 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Watch time affects your recommendations, so this isn't a great solution

[–] MrVilliam@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

After watching, click do not recommend and say that it's because you've already watched it. Problem solved.

[–] TheGalacticVoid@lemm.ee 0 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

And now YouTube thinks you hate that video, so your recommendations are less relevant unless you're willing to do the survey every time.

[–] MrVilliam@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

It's barely more work than just clicking "Not interested." though. Just click "tell us why" and "I've already watched this video" and it knows that you didn't dislike it. Trust me, I've been doing this for a while now and it still properly recommends videos. It just cleans up your recommended queue because it knows that you've already watched those ones in particular. I've watched a lot of music deep dive content this way because the ads stupidly will interrupt at the worst moments and ruin the flow, but that kind of content still shows up on my feed all the time.

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