I'm really glad youtube is cracking down on ad blockers instead of sex bots, false reporting, and false copyright strikes, they really got their priorities right
Dude it's because adblocker is so effective that only major companies care to have consistent ads on UA-cam, if anything this change will hopefully lead to less demonization as more companies pay for it since it'll be seen
It's easy to forget what the Internet is really like when you block ads. I always have a VPN or DNS blocking ads, one day I shut them down and forgot, when I went online the constant barrage of ads, videos and pop-ups was shocking. I honestly didn't realize there are people suffering through this garbage. It's major websites themselves to blame for pushing ads to such an extreme.
Yeah it's so weird going on sites without a blocker sometimes. Even sometimes on forums for some places like gamefaqs where ads are shoved directly into people's forum posts as well as basically all over the screen.
I felt that when Vanced stopped working. Except that there I also lost the ability of watching/listening to videos while doing something else. Its just a minor inconviene but god it makes a difference in the long run
I use UBlock Origin. There is a workaround that is STILL working MOST of the time on YT (and I've gotten those messages to "turn off adblocker or NO YT FOR YOU"). Go to settings of UBlock Origin and then "filter lists". Select "purge all caches" then select "update now". Then reload page or restart the browser. I don't get that message very often anymore. I'm using a Chrome browser, and I pin the "filter list" page so it is always easily accessible. I do that routine whenever those messages show up. Sometimes I do it when I load my browser as prevention.
one costs money (and is incredibly complex and difficult to solve), one makes money (and is much less complicated to solve). It's a pretty straightforward good business decision to have the priorities this way. It's hard to have a good platform when you can't afford to run the platform at all. It sucks, but it makes sense
@@elijahbuscho7715 you are likely correct. It's just extremely unfortunate to know they essentially don't care about the people making their business successful.
"You can support your favorite creators," says platform where almost every single creator has a Patreon just to survive after being demonetized for saying "poop" or making fair use commentary.
@@0lig4rch19 complete black and white. I'd love to move somewhere that's actually as good as youtube in terms of people knowing about it, but there is literally nothing else. youtube is THE platform
Even if they don't, one potential solution they definitely can code into it: ad-blocker automatically recognizes the pop-up, clicks the "Report Issue" link, and sends it. Suddenly, eight-million report issues flood their support team inbox and make it impossible to differentiate from those that are legitimate false-flags.
twitch has been fighting adblockers for like 2 years now and I still get ads whenever i get into that site, its just the main reason i dont like watching streams there lol so maybe the days of adblock are counted
@@Bulldogg6404 One small problem. You are making it sound like the YT support team actually read reports made by people and actually do something about them. When I think everyone here knows that happens only in 1 of 10000 reports sent. Not even big UA-camrs can get in touch with the Support team. That's how useless and lazy they are. But it will be funny to flood the system with false reports from ad-blockers.
They can't block what they can't detect. Firefox + uBlock Origin is very powerful combo that works fine even on Forbes and Twitch. This is mainly because chromium browser extensions can't no longer intercept and modify network requests made by the browser trough webRequest API. This makes ad-blockers far more inefficient what they used to be.
UA-cam has no one to blame but themselves. They make us sit through multiple ads, many are unskippable, and some are several minutes long. I've experienced ads that were 30 minutes in length and ads over an hour long. If UA-cam wasn't so shit in the way they force ads on us, they wouldn't have had to worry about ad blockers to begin with.
I was once served an add on my phone that was close to 50 minutes long, it was for some financial guru scam. If youtube doesn't want to vet their advertisers then I don't want to see their adds.
I liked when UA-cam had little billboard ads at the foot of the video instead of disruptions to the actual play time of the video. It's the type of thing a modern ad blocker would be just fine with ignoring. EDIT: A billboard ad was one that slid a little upward from the bottom of the video (while the video was still playing & you could still keep watching it), and you could press a little button to slide it back down. If this type of ad still existed, you would be able to buy one like this, but you can't. Try buying a UA-cam ad yourself; the option to have an ad like this isn't there. It was already a legacy format that was partly preserved under an "overlay ad" category that you might've seen on videos that set their ad preferences a long time ago, but this type of ad is now entirely discontinued & unsupported by UA-cam, as of April 6th of 2023.
I can see it getting to be like the days of VCRs where you have to have some clever software to queue up and “watch” the videos you want to see so they can be captured and watched “offline.” Otherwise you’ll have to see short 30 second meme videos with a 3 minute commercial before and after, no skipping. Or have classical music you are listening to try to sleep being interrupted every three minutes for 10 minutes of w0ke garbage agenda pushing, or any of the other things these parasites come up with. Human greed knows no bounds.
How ironic it is for them to fight SO hard to destroy AdBlock, while simultaneously allowing all these god-forsaken bot profiles to fester all over the god damn place.
Or allow hackers to take over Channels and live-broadcast crypto-scams, despite being alerted to them when they happen. Or not do shit about Copyright trolls. Or not do shit about their employees harassing channels they dislike.
@@The_Keeper it's so backwards see major popular channels getting hacked and there is nothing to help them get thier channel back but you know this is all about money, not about intregity or the quality of this platform, its just the way it is
That's and the icky ads I get with have naked women doing ohegayo face while shooting a bazuka. I know it knows I like Anime, I know it knows I like videogames but seriously I don't need the p0rn or almost p0rn. It's intrusive and I don't want to see it. I feel bad for anyone trying to quit p0rn , these ads are depressing and just commodifying sex for stupid click bait hentai games.
exactly every company would not give two shits if you dropped dead in front of them as long as they got a paycheck they will ruin your experience so long as they get their way thats the world we live in
Bots give them inflated numbers to sell to advertisers :) Our only hope is the US Congress. If they forced UA-cam to hunt down these bots, I'm sure they would be gone in weeks. But ofc US Congress won't do that, since it's not considered a priority. Other than that, computer skilled consumers could make an app/extension named "Digital Pollution". Don't brands love to say they're clean? Then we must use it against them. How? With a tool that exposed the biggest polluters. It would get the frequency a company advertised on UA-cam and what kind of ads they used (one you can skip or those that last 15 seconds and you can't skip). The more annoying your company is, the worse rating it has. The less, the more this tool will promote as a chill company. I know this would never work, but if only people could cancel companies for being so persistent with their ads...
@@timenotime you can sign out of your account and watch youtube without ads, but if you wanted to reply to someone, you'd need to sign in. It's fucking annoying.
I don't need UA-cam; it's a bad habit. I could be doing so many other things to accomplish something instead. Like you, I've got a pile of books I'd rather get back to; I kind of miss them now that you mention them.
Funny fact: Websites back in the day would ask site visitors to report any ads with video and sound so that admins could remove them. Now they're everywhere.
To be fair, having video AND sound was expensive af in terms of bandwidth and most websites had no choice but to shut them down if they wanted their servers not to collapse.
This is going to kill the "meditation" or "10 hours of (noise) for sleep" sections of UA-cam, there's nothing worse than being 5 minutes into trying to zone out of the hellscape we live in to hear an ad start. It already happens if I'm on mobile and not on my PC where I have ad block.
they're really tryna push some dystopia shit like, no, we actually dont want to live in the bladerunner world, google, its better when its fiction thank you very much.
I'm an ex-alcoholic who continually (despite reporting them as irrelevant and etc.) gets advertised alcohol. It's disgusting. I will not be turning mine off, ever. Like you said, it's like having unprotected sex with someone who's completely filthy.
The thing with those alcohol commercials is that even though I do drink alcohol, none of the advertised stuff I've seen is anything I'd ever consider drinking, let alone buying with my money. And yea, serving those ads to a former alcoholic is a degenerate and wrong thing to do for sure. And you can bet that the google algorhythm is perfectly aware that you drank alcohol before you quit, possibly even that you had a weakness there in your former life. That said, kudos to you for being strong and changing your life, you have my respect! I wish you all the best.
There actually is a Google Ad Center where you can, among other things, reduce the number of alcohol ads you see. I don't know how effective it is though.
@@pinobluevogel6458 y'all get alcohol advertisements? I keep on getting the robo-liter box commercial and I don't even own a cat nor have I seen pussy in over 10 years :D
@@4598-c9li mean they get a lot of money from selling your data. the free internet, even without ads, is not really free regardless because it all runs on sale of your data to third party advertisers :) you learn something new everyday kiddo
Lmao that's the most ridiculous rule out there. If only the US Congress could force Google to stop ads on these videos... We would either get less demonetizations or they would start banning creators... It's crazy that demonetization is so rough when companies don't fcking care. Like, isn't the point of demonetization to protect the brands from being associated with bad people? If that were true, there would no ads on demonetized channels but we all know how it is :)
Google: "This video has content that is not suitable for most advertisers" Also Google: "Here's a bunch of unskippable ads on this video that's not suitable for ads" Demonetization has always been dual purpose. It is a way to reduce the expenditure of the company by refusing to pay content creators, both the many small creators or the few large creators, after the content creators have already provided their product. It is also a weapon to be wielded against those who's content is otherwise legally protected speech but proffers a different message than the one those in control at all levels agree with.
As far as I'm concerned, the term for that is "theft", if not actually fraud, and it should be treated as such. Sadly, the legal system in the USA is so f*cked up that sueing big corporations is nearly useless...
easy as hell to enforce when you know the whole story. it's not youtube wanting to get rid of adblocker, its google. all google has to do is disable browser extensions for Chrome. then every Chromium-based (most of them, unfortunately) browser will have disabled extensions. the ONLY solution will be to use a non-Chromium browser like Firefox.
@@fistovuzi I doubt google will do that. also i dont think they could force Chromium based ones like opera to do it unless they have some kind of legal agreement with google since I would assume they arent beholden to google
@@fistovuzi Not really, people will just open source browser extensions for adblock and you can import your own (using dev tools). Its really easy to do. My worry is if they inject the ads at delivery (imagine it actually becomes part of the video streamed to your browser) it will look seemless code wise, and will be unblockable.
I have had over 3 million ads blocked since I installed my Adblock and I haven’t had it for that long which is crazy just how much adblocker affects my experience
I had 41 just refreshing this page to test if turning my adblock on and off would work by chance and it hit me with the "you have 2 videos remaining" 🥴
Yes because listening to a documentary while trying to sleep then being interrupted by a corpse-waking cacophony of ads in the middle of the night is such a great experience!
Hell without YT Premium you can't even turn the screen off to just listen to the audio. I use that feature every night. Months ago I decided to get the YT Premium family plan that covers 6 accounts. I split the cost with my cousin, so it only costs me $11 a month. And it covers me, my cousin, my dad, mom, sister, and niece. Having YT Music Premium thrown in with it is kind of nice too.
@@sean8102 I used to have Vanced and that feature is something I enjoyed about it. Now, I'm thinking of getting Premium. Sucks that I'm considering it since UA-cam seems to be getting worse.
I got adblock once UA-cam started taking away the “skip ad” buttons. I already pay for my cellular internet, I’m not putting up with paying to watch youtube on the internet but also now having to pay to watch ads I didn’t even ask for. I feel like we should be able to sue youtube for every megabyte of data we pay internet providers for, that youtube stole to feed us unsolicited advertisements
UA-cam can try everything they can to stop ad blockers all they want. But the good thing is, someone out there will come up a way to bypass the block for the people that use ad blockers moving forward.
Here in Europe we have the say a "Big Thank You" to the EEC Council for telling Utube they have no right to access the Viewers Details or Viewing HIstory.
@@Pharo88 the changes are only happening for some people as an experiment, the change will hit you later, that or UA-cam is bad at detecting adblockers
@@mcjavabelike8320 mine isnt just a addblocker tho. Its its own navigator. So i dont use the app. Its like looking up youtube on chrome n watching it from there. I can also turn the phone off n it keeps playing. It pretty cool, best thing is, its freeeeee.
It's not just about ads, it's about tracking. After a 10 minute video ublock origin blocks around 100 trackers and it only grows with time. Most I had was 600 so far. They track everything, how long your mouse is on something, how long you're watching, reading comments, EVERYTHING. I'm not willing to give this up. It's not just about ads, it's privacy.
I've gotten upwards of 1500 blocks from uBlock Origin if the video's long enough or I leave the page open too long. Just now it only took 30 seconds to reach 510.
@@noseboop4354 Using adblockers along with a network firewall means you can continue to use YT. Using a service without paying hurts a company's bottom line more than boycotts
The tamper monkey extension on chrome already has a script called "anti adblock fock off", that works on most of the sites that have this anti adblock feature. i think they can modify it to bypass this stuff aswell.
Commercials and Ad's are one of the biggest, if not THE biggest, factors on the death of cable television and the rise of premium services. The lengths people will go to avoid a salesmen knows no limits!
I remember back in the day, youtube ads used to just be small banners at the bottom of the video and on the side where you see upcoming videos. They werent intrusive at all, and I didnt have an adblock until they became a headache, laggy, and even dangerous malware. Things were so much simpler and better in 2014.
@@hunterklufen1845 yes. theres a shit ton of fake websites selling gaming chairs for ridiculous prices on my YT ads, and fake betting websites that ask you to download underground Apps in Play Store.
same, I installed adblockers out of pure necessity. If they want people to turn off their adblockers then they need to make the ad system better with less malicious ads, no ads over 15 seconds, and not flooding you with ads if you just watched some. Gabe Newell said that Piracy is a service issue. I would say adblockers on UA-cam is a similar service issue. Making the service worse won't fix it and will just lead to further developed adblockers.
u-block still works. disable the other adblocks, refresh ublock to the latest version and it should work. Watching your videos in incognito-mode or with a vpn (and with all ad-blocks enabeld) , also worked for me.......
what blows my mind is that when people started blocking ads, companies decided to try and force feed you ads instead of perhaps finding a less intrusive and obnoxious way to advertise their products
Yeah I genuinely don't mind the ads when watching UA-cam on my TV. They're short and generally creators put them at sensible times. PC is massively different though. Auto-playing, flashing ads and ones you have to interact with are just frustrating and take away from the experience.
To me, the ads are unacceptable. I get 2 unskippable 15-30 second ads at the beginning of every video and then a bunch of ads during the video. It's so bad that im using a Webbrowser with an AdBlocker on my phone to watch UA-cam instead of the app
If they're really going to disable Adblock, I'd expect them to crack down on all these shady and scammy web seminar ads and stop letting them clog most of my ad breaks.
I also exspect them to crack down on the ones copying the look of big channels to say you won a prize and to message them on a message app! those are rampant and have gotten better but not fixed.
I've had my own ad block system for years now. Something pops up, I hit the mute and do something else until it's gone. You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink.
UA-cam without AdBlock is borderline unwatchable on PC. Just the other day our teacher tried to show us a 20 minute video which was constantly interrupted by five ads total, two of them unskippable.
As much as it makes sense that they make this decision, dont let it slip your mind that they're fighting adblockers long before they've even touched on the prevalent issue of blatant sexually suggestive/misleading/scam advertisements. Classic UA-cam L
@@EyeupthebisonUA-cam being @$$ and unfair = Ain't buying premium Also, UA-cam is greedy corporate that never listens to community, why bother get premium when you can crack premium for free like we pirated Adobes.
I’ve been using UA-cam since I was 7, and I still remember a LOT of amazing things that UA-cam stopped doing, for example you were able to make little notes that would pop up whenever the UA-camr desired to and it was very creative and UA-camrs would use it always and it was fun. You had ads on the side of the page, on top of the recommended videos and it worked, I saw the ads WHILE looking at what I want to see. Edit: usually I would say thanks as this is (no shit) the biggest fucking amount of likes I've ever gotten, thanks guys, but I want to point out that I got this many likes and it just so happened I wanted to open notifications (something I usually don't to) and saw this, otherwise UA-cam shitty notification system would've NEVER told me about this, mind you, I remember notifications starting to be a problem all the way back to the famous ad-pocalypse supposedly caused by pewdiepie, UA-cam just paints the wall and never really covers the holes.
Whats going to piss you off, is that the youtube cards ("little notes") were removed because android/ios users had to suffer them. This was the beginning of google "mobile-izing" youtube. Meanwhile Google still insists on not doing advertisements like every other media source because Google thinks its so special that its OK to make users suffer for the money.
More accurately, It's like walking through a mall and every store having people swarming you and sticking flyers to your face and body, blinding you, making it impossible to move and hear anything. Every website with ads feels like I have to physically fight my way through a mob. If UA-cam gets like that I'll just stop using the site.
If you're trying to read an article on a site that either demands you shut off adblock or is kept behind a paywall, one way around it is to put the link into an archiver site. 99% of the time, you'll get your article.
I completely agree, I wouldn't mind the ads if they werent so intrusive, I'd probably not mind not having an ad block. In youtube the problem is stopping the content to display the ad, instead of just being a window by the side like it used to be. It is just extremely annoying. I feel very sorry for kids nowdays that feel like this is normal, that they haven't seen the internet 10-15 years ago when things were just much more reasonable. I honestly feel disgusted by the way big companies (google, microsoft, EA, and others in the entertainment industry) are ever more abusive and dishonest.
Also sometimes I just wanna see the first 10 secs of a video to see if I would be interested in it/have seen it before/like the persons voice to fall asleep to. Sometimes on my PS4 I just wanna go back on the vid again that just fininshed to drop a like and its just not worth it. I always end up clicking off them
yeah, there's already adblockers that can get around detection systems, it's not that far fetched to think there'll jut be another one built for this piece of shit website
The endgame is a new DMCA clause which makes it illegal to write code which blocks ads, in the same way that it's illegal to write code that circumvents DRM
Trying to block Adblock is just like companies trying to keep people from modifying or pirating their game. If the desire is strong enough people will still find a way to get through it.
Then they get hit with massive fines. The skyrim multiplayer campaign getting nuked really sucked. (Bethesda's main policy is you can't add additional content but you can add to the original)
@@coryyoung7544 Im not super educated so don't flame me if I'm wrong, but I don't know that there are many fines to be handed out for using or creating an ad blocking software. Its UA-cam's terms so they can ban you, but I don't know that the court gives a shit.
UA-cam created this issue. The only reason I ever started using AdBlock was BECAUSE of UA-cam's obnoxious and excessive advertising. They got greedy and it exacerbated the issue for themselves.
Literally every other web page i visit only have those little static ads at the side or in between that barely gets in the way, more even, sometimes they DO show me something interesting to buy as long as you can tell isn't malware. This is not the case with UA-cam, because they bring commercials while playing a video and is like watching TV again (That was already annoying enough and the very reason why internet became the best option)
Big ups for big brain UA-cam who is shutting down adblocks so developers can get better at programming just to bypass the security system! Great push up for our internet engineers!
That's technically true. I mean YT hid the dislikes, and some browser addons reveled them. Thankfully my noScript/ABP combo seems to be unaffected by all this so far. As noScript seems to be blocking the adblock detection script. But that may change.
@buckrogers1162 I wouldn't mention which apps work, wouldn't surprise me if UA-cam has scripts to notify who is mentioning the subject of this video and which apps are still functioning :)
@@TheLordGingerJesus, I'm not worried about it. As YT ain't intelligent enough to do that. Hell, they couldn't even get their damn algorithm to not repeatedly kick It'sAGundam off the partner program for 'Reused Content'; When all he did was upload his videos twice, once for the premium subs, which I'm guessing where fully uncensored, and once for non-premium subs. But the thing is that he still has to censor every swear he may use or face outright removal of the vid. Something that YT has lowered it's requirements on, but he still cannot swear at all lest he face the full might of being buried. Like I said, YT ain't all that intelligent. And their algorithm is full on 'Yellow short bus'.
If youtube wants to stop ad blockers to "support creators"... maybe they should pay who we watch and not "who we watch but only who is "worthy" according to their (i)moral standards".
The worst part about this whole situation is that UA-cam for months now has been known to play ads on videos uploaded by channels that don’t meet the requirements for Ad-Sense, meaning UA-cam gets to reap all the rewards with non-consensual ads on creator’s videos who don’t see a dime of the ad revenue. Absolutely disgusting. Edit: Wow, a lot of bootlickers in the comments lol. Do you think it’s free for the creators to spend their time/money on making content for this platform? People dedicate years of their lives making UA-cam videos only to get nowhere financially, and it’s even sadder seeing UA-cam directly profiting from these hard working creators who get NOTHING in return. I personally am a small creator, and if UA-cam is making money off of the videos that I MADE, than I DESERVE to see some of that money. The creators are the lifeblood of this website, UA-cam wouldn’t be making ANY money whatsoever without the creators, so how is it fair that UA-cam gets to bring down the viewer experience by placing ads on videos that DON’T support the creator? We don’t watch ads on this site to support a multi-billion dollar company that doesn’t care about its user base, we watch ads to support the content creators who pour their blood, sweat and tears into making content for the viewers. My point is that if UA-cam is gonna place ads on smaller creator’s channels, they should see some of the money made from it, even if it’s only a tiny amount. Yes, I understand UA-cam is a company that needs money to function, but they should be more open to a revenue split with smaller creators because some people spend years making content and don’t get a cent of revenue from their work, and seeing UA-cam directly mooching off of these people is gross to me. Side note: Tell me with a straight face that you’re okay with clicking on a 5 second clip or meme of something, only to get a 15 second unskippable ad beforehand. Let-alone x2 ads, 15 seconds each, on a video clip that’s less than 10 seconds. They should just call this site AdTube. It used to be ads in between videos, now it’s videos between ads.
Months? More like YEARS! I remember hearing about that back in the pre-covid days! Even MORE reasons why we should keep running ad block programs on this shit-hole website!
It’s insane that people expect everything to be handed to them for free even if it’s something they use almost every day, you think UA-cam is going to use their own money to pay content creators?
List more than like 2 youtubers who have over a million subscribers who have legitimately fully unironically consistently said "disable adblock when watching my videos" & hasn't gotten completely destroyed by their audience. More Charlie dick-sucking
The difference might be that he has enough other sources of income to where ad revenue isn't necessary for him, he's even purposefully losing money by supporting esport teams because he thinks it's fun. Many creators are probably dependent on ad revenue to make enough for it to be viable for them to continue creating that content.
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@@XirevWoW Bullshit, if they make enough money to not need a real job, they can probably tank the hit from the adblock.
@ Content creation is not a consistent source of income. Certain months are better than others and videos might not perform as you might have expected. You might be fine one month but not be able to pay your bills the next one. Considering the possibility of sickness which can lead to a big loss in revenue is also a factor. Having a decent buffer as a content creator is almost mandatory.
And even if, the last bastion is blocking the incoming ad traffic paths with a raspberry pi that’s connected to your wifi. You don’t even need to know programming.
If they put as much effort into vetting the legitimacy of all ads on their platform as they do hammering creators then we would have nothing to worry about.
@Blamblo I'm convinced TikTok wouldn't have exploded like it did if young kids weren't savvy enough to have ad blockers and it was advertised everywhere. I notice now it's the main place lots of people go for short form content it's no longer adevrtised. I'm not usre if it's because Tiktok stopped paying for ads or UA-cam stopped taking them due to them being competitor, but if it's the latter then you know for sure UA-cam doesn't give two shits about what their advertising.
@Blamblo Just the other day I got an ad for that stupid mobile game with the keys puzzle thingy where the protagonist was straight up in the middle of a giant slime girl's tits UA-cam will allow this shit and yet demonetize creators for the shittiest reasons
Like honestly I am fine with the plugs being thrown to the creators, creator makes their own ad incorporates it in their channel content then its gonna at least on some level be tolerable and properly timed. Rather than sometimes you get a loading error that resets your ad timing. Also, an ad is too much when it literally continuously covers the content you are there for. I can't focus and read if there is a flashing video or bar in my text. Also why should my data go towards their ad? are they gonna compensate me the data cost?
If you see this ad block message, close youtube on that device and stop using youtube on it as much as possible. You are a beta tester for this, if it looks like people are willing to deal with it, it'll only get worse and worse. You think a 15 second ad is bad? give them an inch they'll take a mile, its only gonna get worse if we let it.
I believe that UA-cam is making a big mistake by assuming that there is anything on their website that I am interested in watching more than avoiding ads. If I'm unable to block ads, then I will simply stop using UA-cam. They need to find a better way to make money without driving their audience away. In my opinion, this is a bad business model that needs to be reevaluated.
Quick tip: When a video begins you should pause, drag the time all the way to the end, then back about 5-6 seconds. Once you've done that let it play or hit play for the ending 5-6 seconds. When the video is "over" you can then drag the time to the beginning and play it from. The start without any ads. This works for 24+ hour videos as well, even "free" movies with ads.
Not only are the ads intrusive, they also tend to be really sleazy. Many of the ads I see are either for sketchy products that are probably scams, fake links that most likely download viruses, or literal porn sites.
@@StuninRub even with tailored ads off, this still happens. And just because it may be tailored to you, does not excuse the fact that youtube allows these scumbags to advertise dangerous links to people.
@@StuninRub Google pushes a lot of shitty mobile games that are basically porn regardless of targeted ads. I've had tailored ads active for a a while and even input what I would like Google to advertise to me and it's still just suggestive mobile game ads.
100% of my clicks on ads on mobile are desperate attempts to close that ad. First, they made the internet unusable, then the adblockers kicked back, now we have an adblocker war. The only options to settle this are: 1. Reduce the ads so that the sites are usable and fun again. 2. Make the premium option so cheap that its a no-brainer. I cannot afford subscribing on 40 or more websites just to have a hassle-free experience. It's like you said: If a website insists on deactivating the adblocker, i am gone.
The problem has always been that ads got more and more intrusive. I never had a problem with ads being somewhere on the side of a webpage. Problem became when you started getting ads with distracting flashing effects, popups appearing out of nowhere when opening a page or just clicking somewhere, which often also lead to scams and malware, when ads started making sounds, all to the bullshit we have now with being forced to watch multiple unskippable videos, not only at the start, but often also in the middle of a video and at the end. There's a few websites I disabled my adblocker for. Not because they forced me to, but because they had a simple explanatory message that they need the revenue, and they promise to not have any intrusive BS ads on their site. Just stop trying to be more and more intrusive with these ads, because all it does is make people install more adblockers. It's similar to how pumping videogames full of Denuvo and other crap that makes the game run worse is not helping.
YES! I actually still have a few things I got by clicking (legit) banner ads back when ads were a reasonable part of the internet. As soon as I got an ad that auto-played audio but was not visible without scrolling, I began militantly blocking ads.
not to mention all the unskippable ads selling a product that is either against m gender demographic OR my personal taste against feminine beauty BS that does nothing for me except get eczema breakouts :/
my biggest issue was that many of them also started to be "sexual", especially on news or like forum sites. Maybe it isn't like that anymore, but you really don't want to open up a website and get all these extra windows with naked ladies on them (I'm a straight woman btw)
That's the point. If the ads were only on specific part of the sites, not randomly popping up, not taking 90% of the website's space, not being long, forced and annoying, it would be okay. I remember the times, when You has the side bars with the ads. And this was okay. But now ads are literally everywhere. If You turn off the adblock, You have ads everywhere. This is a joke. They expect people to use website like this? I should be the one who decide to click on an ad if I am interested. Because ads in the Internet are like a guy who sticks posters everywhere on Your house. Outside, inside, on Your car, even on Your face. That's what Internet ads look like today. And they do *everything* to make sure You accidently click on the ad. Either by faking the X, or by suddenly popping it up. And half of the ads are annoying. Like some kind of sex games. WTAF? I don't want to see such things. If I wanted to watch porn, I just would. Or play porn games. I don't want to see ads about these. TV ads were said to be intrusive. But Internet ads are long surpassed the annoyance. It's literally a unwanted trash.
I've used ad blockers almost from when they came out. I have also not watched network TV for around 20 years. I recently went on holiday and watched regular TV in my hotel room and I found it almost unwatchable. The sheer amount of time they showed adverts vs the amount of time they showed the actual program was crazy to me. Not only do I also not put up with sites that require me to turn my ad blocker off, I do not use sites that do not allow me to very quickly disable all cookies. And sites that require you to set up an account like Facebook do not exist for me.
Compare the running times of older 30 minute comedies from the 1980s, 1970s and older and you'll see the show is about 26 minutes of show and 4 minutes of commercials. Now its about 18 to 20 with 10 to 12 minutes of ads. That isn't something I will tolerate. I gave up commercial TV about 10 years ago and only watch streaming services now.
Yes, I'm very annoyed at the websites who only allow you access w/a FB login. Like WTF having a stupid FB account should not be a requirement for using ANY other website! Still I follow a few small companies who love using FB for live events or giveaways and I keep emailing them telling them it's not fair to those of us who refuse to use FB. Do it on a more neutral platform!
@@SaneMillennial I have never come across one of these. I have come across ones that allow the option to log in with your FB, Google or other major website account, but not one that requires just FB and does not even allow you to create an account on the website itself. Unless the site requires access to FB to work, I can't imagine someone restricting themselves in such a way.
@@Farmer_El z That's the only way to enjoy watching TV or stuff in general. I have not turned on a TV or watched linear tv broadcast for 10years++ too
These companies really act like viewing ads is our moral obligation "Are you really gonna take money from these poor multibillion dollar corporations?"
its not a moral obligation for you to consume free entertainment either, most ads are chill and skippable, i agree 15-30second non skippables are annoying tho im not even a creator but i understand that the free content creators i watch make money off of me watching their ads, it's a simple circle
The funny thing is, Google their parent company knows that the more obnoxious the ads a site has, the more likely people are to install AdBlock. I say know, because I seem to remember like a decade ago they made a report about it.
yeah and I think it probably wasn't google's decision but rather the new ceo of youtube, they say he is a crypto guy who hates adblock and I think that makes sense
In a pre-holiday public service announcement, the FBI said that cybercriminals are buying ads to impersonate legitimate brands, like cryptocurrency exchanges. Ads are often placed at the top of search results but with “minimum distinction” between the ads and the search results, the feds say, which can look identical to the brands that the cybercriminals are impersonating. Malicious ads are also used to trick victims into installing malware disguised as genuine apps, which can steal passwords and deploy file-encrypting ransomware. One of the FBI’s recommendations for consumers is to install an ad blocker.
This is literally the reason why I got an addblock. I used youtube for over a decade before I installed one, because the adds were tolerable, and the amount of them was not like 5 per video and each lasting from 2 to 20 f*ing minutes! And even that would have been tolerable, until every single one of the adds was some migraine inducing mobile game add that I swear have contributed to by dental care costs the amount of teeth grinding they caused.
Yes I remember too. Not only they were saying ads should stay minimal, they were saying that adblock users are a small percentage of overall users and they have no need to bother them. OH how the turn tables huh... We'll see a surge in adblockers. You'll need to have like 10 of them installed just for one to work :D
As someone who regularly listens to yt videos on my phone to sleep. Ive often find myself waking up in the middle of a 30 minute lecture advertisement. Not a joke. A whole classwork of a single add
The ones that pop up in the middle of a video or music playlist video are the worst when trying to sleep, especially when they are 5 times louder than the video
fr i listen to podcasts to sleep and its so goddamn annoying when u have to get up every 5 minutes and click the skip ad button. i hate midrolls so much
- Indeed, I noticed that recently. First I could click away the YT popup. Then they added a timer so I had to wait before I could click it away. Then they got really nasty and said that "3 more times and the videoplayer will be blocked". - People who use an adblocker, don't want to see ads. So it's really sad to tell us "tough luck, you will have to watch it anyway". It doesn't make me want to buy the stuff from the ads, it just turns me off from it, as well as it turns me off from YT for pushing it against my will. - Advertising is the reason that I can't stand television anymore, and why I don't use apps on my smartphone. It's sad though because there are fun content creators on YT that I follow. I don't mind content creators recommending products related to their channel topic. I don't even mind supporting channels financially sometimes, from which YT takes an unproportionally big commission anyway. But selling adspace to advertisers to fund their business, and then pushing those ads on unwilling viewers ... I wish YT the same fate as other media that want to show me stuff I don't want to see. If I want to buy something, I'll search for it myself thank you very much. How effed up is this world that advertising far outweighs actual content ?
I sort of agree with you, but at the same time, UA-cam is trying to make money. And if they don't make money, then it's going to be harder to pay content creators. And if content creators aren't getting paid enough, they won't create content. It's a lose lose situation.
The real biggest problem with this is the fact that these corporations are becoming richer while we are becoming poorer. So not only are we getting poorer, but our time is getting wasted as well.
The sad part is that, theres a good chance they'll implement it. 99% of people complained about the Dislikes being removed, demanding UA-cam to keep them and they just went "Lol we'll do it anyway cause the corporations channels said it bothers them"
@@cavalierliberty6838 Aye for sure. Also the fact that most people will buy UA-cam Premium to save them hassle also makes it likely, since UA-cam will see the boost in sales and call it worth from there
Video dislikes are easily seen with browser addons. My old YT add blocker was blocked by YT some time ago, switched to another that is still working. Non issue, good people gonna come up with workarounds f u YT
I mostly use youtube because there's a wide variety of creators that don't use rumble but if youtube wants to play hard to get I'm just not gonna bother with it, take for instance donald trump's CNN town hall, rumble has it, but youtube wouldn't show it, except for CNN highly edited fake news clips, on rumble I get to see trump, and I get to see unadulterated trump
Pretty sure it's taken them this long to address it because they Know people will just try to get around it the second they do something. So instead of pushing out half-assed attempts to deal with it they've invested a lot of time and money into it. Whether it pays off for them only time will tell. But I'm fairly certain they've put a lot into this for the very specific reason that it's Not going to be easy to get around like people think it is.
Here's an idea - how about instead of just fighting an arms race against adblockers, companies created features and content that made people want to buy premium, not just find ways around artificial limitations? Frankly, I think a lot of these companies are just overestimating how much people want to use their sites.
Or rather how people don't care to switch. In big numbers, things like these won't make a single difference. They don't underestimate or overestimate anything. They know it won't change much even if people leave because they will come back. Try LBRY though, a bunch of creators already moved. It's owned by the users, no big tech.
@@TomoG4ch4_Alan94 I just like using YT Music over Spotify since YT Premium + Music costs the same as Spotify but has more songs that Spotify doesn't have like some anime intro songs or remixes by smaller artists + background no ad play on 1+ hour youtube videos like background noise.
How would they make it less intrusive? The whole point is they want you to know about the company, but you're not on the internet to learn about companies and advertisements. This is some black mirror shit, and it only gets worse.
i agree.. the ones that sit on the side or bottom and dont actually blocks the video from playing but remains in clear view for 20-30 seconds dont bother me at all..
they will never pull it off without some kind of app that belongs to them. as long as they allow you access through third party browsers there isnt a damn thing you tube can do other than beg
The crackdown on personal internet security and safe browsing is something I will show no quarter over. When a company tries to prevent me from browsing safely, I try to look up their parent company and all the products they offer, and add them to a blacklist I keep. I will never use or say anything positive to others about any of those products (even if I used them previously and was satisfied) and will make an effort to become familiar with competitors even for products I'm not personally in a market for, and push other people towards those competitors when the offending company's equivalent is mentioned or somebody asks for a relevant recommendation.
When Charlie mentioned those guys who claimed that watching vids with adblockers is piracy i kinda came to think "Damn, if i have to pirate free content then that means there is something fundamentally wrong with the platform and it's management"
@@xabhax Ya, if people were somehow watching his YT Red content for free - he would have a point. However, the majority of his viewership will be the content he posts to the free side of YT. And he makes way more money of sponsorships in a month or two than he does in two years of adverts viewed. Even those mobile game apps pay big, like $10k for one sponsorship video segment.
@@richardhobbs7360 I would not run optional ad-rolls if I operated a professional website. The ad networks do not vet their adverts. Not even YT properly vets the adverts it shows. However, if was operating a setup in which content had a sponsored segment I had vetted and filmed plus an ad-rolls on top. I'd be fine with some people skipping the optional ad-rolls. I'd still make a lot of money because of the highly paid sponsored segments per video ($10,000~$100,000.) The income per optional ad-roll viewed is less than 0.05 cents.
AdBlock devs are so good at what they do, I'm sure they will have something cooking hard. In a way I'm optimistic that anti-anti-adblockers may finally let me unlock other websites without worrying about malware again.
It's UA-cam. This shit will be settled in a day. We saw how well hiding dislikes turned out. I can still see dislikes unless the uploader turned them completely off.
No, you're wrong. Charles is just smart enough to know his audience. He knows if he feigns being 'for the people', fanboys like you will blow their load, and consume even more of his content. Google will take care of his revenue for him, as they're doing now by blocking ad blockers.
I'm really glad youtube is cracking down on ad blockers instead of sex bots, false reporting, and false copyright strikes, they really got their priorities right
Of course they do.... money is their number 1 priority same as literally every company
One of those directly hits their revenue.....
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Money is their priority like everything else in this world
I agree, ad blockers are way too dangerous.
UA-cam simultaneously fighting ad blockers while finding more excuses to not pay creators.
lol
promoting bullies rapists and pedos.
u need to pay those youtubers somehow right?
Dude it's because adblocker is so effective that only major companies care to have consistent ads on UA-cam, if anything this change will hopefully lead to less demonization as more companies pay for it since it'll be seen
Even if not for blocking UA-cam ads I'd still use it to not get a virus or some invasive ads on other websites, on mobile I just watch the Ads.
@@Gamerad360 Same.
It's easy to forget what the Internet is really like when you block ads. I always have a VPN or DNS blocking ads, one day I shut them down and forgot, when I went online the constant barrage of ads, videos and pop-ups was shocking. I honestly didn't realize there are people suffering through this garbage. It's major websites themselves to blame for pushing ads to such an extreme.
Yeah it really sucks bro.
Yeah it's so weird going on sites without a blocker sometimes. Even sometimes on forums for some places like gamefaqs where ads are shoved directly into people's forum posts as well as basically all over the screen.
I have not removed my adblock in years and always get confused when browsing internet on my phone "Others really use internet like this?! Adhell!"
I felt that when Vanced stopped working. Except that there I also lost the ability of watching/listening to videos while doing something else. Its just a minor inconviene but god it makes a difference in the long run
@@Sr.Anonimo-bk1uz Vanced still works for me, currently using it
Using the internet today without an adblocker is like using the internet in the early 2000s without a popup blocker.
Only slower, more bloated, and all the top web search results are incompetent AI-generated garbage.
I use UBlock Origin. There is a workaround that is STILL working MOST of the time on YT (and I've gotten those messages to "turn off adblocker or NO YT FOR YOU").
Go to settings of UBlock Origin and then "filter lists". Select "purge all caches" then select "update now". Then reload page or restart the browser. I don't get that message very often anymore.
I'm using a Chrome browser, and I pin the "filter list" page so it is always easily accessible. I do that routine whenever those messages show up. Sometimes I do it when I load my browser as prevention.
Entire UA-cam community: "Please help us combat false copyright strikes"
UA-cam: "No more AdBlocker. Got it."
one costs money (and is incredibly complex and difficult to solve), one makes money (and is much less complicated to solve). It's a pretty straightforward good business decision to have the priorities this way. It's hard to have a good platform when you can't afford to run the platform at all. It sucks, but it makes sense
@@elijahbuscho7715 you are likely correct. It's just extremely unfortunate to know they essentially don't care about the people making their business successful.
False copyright claims doesn't affect YT's bottomline as much as adblocks though.
@@elijahbuscho7715 oh they can afford to run this site 10 times over with the profit they make, they just want more profit
@@pelonix can you source that info for me? I'm actually interested in considering youtube's profit margins
"You can support your favorite creators," says platform where almost every single creator has a Patreon just to survive after being demonetized for saying "poop" or making fair use commentary.
people really need to move away from youtube
astute observation my boy
@@caralho5237 and go where? there is nothing better than youtube (with premium)
@@Purriahanyone not boycotting agrees with the policies. Y’all might not like it but it’s facts
@@0lig4rch19 complete black and white. I'd love to move somewhere that's actually as good as youtube in terms of people knowing about it, but there is literally nothing else. youtube is THE platform
I strongly believe adblocker developers will find a way to bypass this within maybe a week of this change rolling out globally
Even if they don't, one potential solution they definitely can code into it: ad-blocker automatically recognizes the pop-up, clicks the "Report Issue" link, and sends it. Suddenly, eight-million report issues flood their support team inbox and make it impossible to differentiate from those that are legitimate false-flags.
twitch has been fighting adblockers for like 2 years now and I still get ads whenever i get into that site, its just the main reason i dont like watching streams there lol so maybe the days of adblock are counted
@@Bulldogg6404 One small problem. You are making it sound like the YT support team actually read reports made by people and actually do something about them. When I think everyone here knows that happens only in 1 of 10000 reports sent. Not even big UA-camrs can get in touch with the Support team. That's how useless and lazy they are. But it will be funny to flood the system with false reports from ad-blockers.
@@Davineitor005That's also because they can just place the ads over the stream 😂
They can't block what they can't detect. Firefox + uBlock Origin is very powerful combo that works fine even on Forbes and Twitch. This is mainly because chromium browser extensions can't no longer intercept and modify network requests made by the browser trough webRequest API. This makes ad-blockers far more inefficient what they used to be.
UA-cam has no one to blame but themselves. They make us sit through multiple ads, many are unskippable, and some are several minutes long. I've experienced ads that were 30 minutes in length and ads over an hour long. If UA-cam wasn't so shit in the way they force ads on us, they wouldn't have had to worry about ad blockers to begin with.
I was once served an add on my phone that was close to 50 minutes long, it was for some financial guru scam. If youtube doesn't want to vet their advertisers then I don't want to see their adds.
I've experienced a UA-cam ad today that featured women who were dressed sexually. It's disgusting.
I'd say on android about 90% ads are skipable and the ones that aren't are 15 seconds max.
I miss falling asleep and waking up in a deep dark corner of UA-cam. Now I'll wake up and there's a 20-minute ad playing.
@trixiek942 Are you receiving that menacing "got it" too ?
I liked when UA-cam had little billboard ads at the foot of the video instead of disruptions to the actual play time of the video. It's the type of thing a modern ad blocker would be just fine with ignoring.
EDIT: A billboard ad was one that slid a little upward from the bottom of the video (while the video was still playing & you could still keep watching it), and you could press a little button to slide it back down. If this type of ad still existed, you would be able to buy one like this, but you can't. Try buying a UA-cam ad yourself; the option to have an ad like this isn't there. It was already a legacy format that was partly preserved under an "overlay ad" category that you might've seen on videos that set their ad preferences a long time ago, but this type of ad is now entirely discontinued & unsupported by UA-cam, as of April 6th of 2023.
Duuuude the memories...
I honestly didn't even notice they took that away till I read this... damn
That was like in 2011-2014 if I'm correct.
Your aware they still have it right?
@@French_Cyndaquil how do you not notice ? It’s been gone for almost 10 years
My biggest fear out of this situation is when we finally come to the day where "skip ad" buttons on two minute ads no longer exist
like Twitch?
NOOO DONT SAY THAT
i quit the video and rejoin it again.
I can see it getting to be like the days of VCRs where you have to have some clever software to queue up and “watch” the videos you want to see so they can be captured and watched “offline.” Otherwise you’ll have to see short 30 second meme videos with a 3 minute commercial before and after, no skipping. Or have classical music you are listening to try to sleep being interrupted every three minutes for 10 minutes of w0ke garbage agenda pushing, or any of the other things these parasites come up with. Human greed knows no bounds.
@@iconiclie oh don't worry, they will make sure to address that in the future too.
How ironic it is for them to fight SO hard to destroy AdBlock, while simultaneously allowing all these god-forsaken bot profiles to fester all over the god damn place.
Or allow hackers to take over Channels and live-broadcast crypto-scams, despite being alerted to them when they happen.
Or not do shit about Copyright trolls.
Or not do shit about their employees harassing channels they dislike.
@@The_Keeper it's so backwards see major popular channels getting hacked and there is nothing to help them get thier channel back but you know this is all about money, not about intregity or the quality of this platform, its just the way it is
That's and the icky ads I get with have naked women doing ohegayo face while shooting a bazuka. I know it knows I like Anime, I know it knows I like videogames but seriously I don't need the p0rn or almost p0rn. It's intrusive and I don't want to see it. I feel bad for anyone trying to quit p0rn , these ads are depressing and just commodifying sex for stupid click bait hentai games.
exactly every company would not give two shits if you dropped dead in front of them as long as they got a paycheck they will ruin your experience so long as they get their way thats the world we live in
Bots give them inflated numbers to sell to advertisers :)
Our only hope is the US Congress. If they forced UA-cam to hunt down these bots, I'm sure they would be gone in weeks. But ofc US Congress won't do that, since it's not considered a priority.
Other than that, computer skilled consumers could make an app/extension named "Digital Pollution". Don't brands love to say they're clean? Then we must use it against them.
How? With a tool that exposed the biggest polluters. It would get the frequency a company advertised on UA-cam and what kind of ads they used (one you can skip or those that last 15 seconds and you can't skip). The more annoying your company is, the worse rating it has. The less, the more this tool will promote as a chill company.
I know this would never work, but if only people could cancel companies for being so persistent with their ads...
if they go through with this, i'm picking up all of the unread books in my bookshelf
i'm constantly getting full film trailers as ads and 30 second unskippables when i disable adblock. it's ridiculous.
@@timenotime you can sign out of your account and watch youtube without ads, but if you wanted to reply to someone, you'd need to sign in. It's fucking annoying.
I don't need UA-cam; it's a bad habit. I could be doing so many other things to accomplish something instead. Like you, I've got a pile of books I'd rather get back to; I kind of miss them now that you mention them.
Funny fact: Websites back in the day would ask site visitors to report any ads with video and sound so that admins could remove them. Now they're everywhere.
To be fair, having video AND sound was expensive af in terms of bandwidth and most websites had no choice but to shut them down if they wanted their servers not to collapse.
how is that funny
@@leviticus2001 Ads were not stored on the servers of the website you're on?
@@Death-999 yeah what
@@KoboldPip fr like how
This is going to kill the "meditation" or "10 hours of (noise) for sleep" sections of UA-cam, there's nothing worse than being 5 minutes into trying to zone out of the hellscape we live in to hear an ad start. It already happens if I'm on mobile and not on my PC where I have ad block.
“Ten hours of dark screen rain in a tin roof and-RAID SHADOW LEGENDS” 💥💥💥
youtubers can choose to stop monetization on a certain video, and also choose whether a video should have ads
they're really tryna push some dystopia shit like, no, we actually dont want to live in the bladerunner world, google, its better when its fiction thank you very much.
@Spencer Topsy not always, anymore. UA-cam has an algorithm that can put ads at the beginning of videos. You're talking about mid-roll ads.
That on the creator not UA-cam.
I'm sure the boys at the lab will be able to cook up something that helps against the anti-ad blockers
the anti-anti-ad blockers
Walter White is already on the case
I am still using adblock, and it still works
ad blocker blocker blocker
@@ronzology gotta up the anti, I like it. Solid plan.
The ironic thing is that as soon as I disabled Ad Block, I got an ad for an Ad blocker
It's such a surreal experience to be watching this video with a fully function ad blocker.
SAMEEE
Ditto.
same here hahahaha
for real
HAHA SAME
I've gotten multiple ads that are over 30 second and are unskippable, pretty often 2 in a row as well. I once got a 15 minute ad that was unskippable
I'm an ex-alcoholic who continually (despite reporting them as irrelevant and etc.) gets advertised alcohol. It's disgusting. I will not be turning mine off, ever. Like you said, it's like having unprotected sex with someone who's completely filthy.
IKR!?
The thing with those alcohol commercials is that even though I do drink alcohol, none of the advertised stuff I've seen is anything I'd ever consider drinking, let alone buying with my money. And yea, serving those ads to a former alcoholic is a degenerate and wrong thing to do for sure. And you can bet that the google algorhythm is perfectly aware that you drank alcohol before you quit, possibly even that you had a weakness there in your former life.
That said, kudos to you for being strong and changing your life, you have my respect! I wish you all the best.
There actually is a Google Ad Center where you can, among other things, reduce the number of alcohol ads you see. I don't know how effective it is though.
@@pinobluevogel6458 y'all get alcohol advertisements? I keep on getting the robo-liter box commercial and I don't even own a cat nor have I seen pussy in over 10 years :D
UA-cam has zero ethics when it comes to ads. I got ads for pyramidschemes and get rich quick schemes watching youtube on my tv
they really said "nooo don't use an adblocker we need it to pay the youtubers" and then proceed to demonetize tons of creators
They only want to pay themselves
@@Dont_Read_My_Pictureand then you got them leaving bitches like these.
@@Dont_Read_My_Picture ok I won’t
Charlie a real one for sacrificing potential dabloons by encouraging his users to use an Adblock.
His videos aren't monetized
@@dzyrewainwright3377 they have 1 ad at start of the video
@@dzyrewainwright3377 yes they are
@@praneeth8142 UA-cam runs ads and keeps the money unless you monetize the channel
Dude he has plenty of money to make moves to protect his finances
The worst thing is while some sites do have an adblock detection and will ASK you to turn it off unlike youtube who FORCE you.
You think you're entitled to their service for free? They don't have to be polite to you
@@4598-c9li mean they get a lot of money from selling your data. the free internet, even without ads, is not really free regardless because it all runs on sale of your data to third party advertisers :) you learn something new everyday kiddo
Can we just appreciate how much effort UA-cam puts into making terrible policies.
Read my name :)
no
I agree, but how else do they make money?
--Return dislikes
--Block ad-blockers
UA-cam: O.O
No?
still blows my mind that UA-cam can demonetize creators videos but still run ads and make money off them
Lmao that's the most ridiculous rule out there. If only the US Congress could force Google to stop ads on these videos...
We would either get less demonetizations or they would start banning creators...
It's crazy that demonetization is so rough when companies don't fcking care. Like, isn't the point of demonetization to protect the brands from being associated with bad people? If that were true, there would no ads on demonetized channels but we all know how it is :)
Google: "This video has content that is not suitable for most advertisers"
Also Google: "Here's a bunch of unskippable ads on this video that's not suitable for ads"
Demonetization has always been dual purpose.
It is a way to reduce the expenditure of the company by refusing to pay content creators, both the many small creators or the few large creators, after the content creators have already provided their product.
It is also a weapon to be wielded against those who's content is otherwise legally protected speech but proffers a different message than the one those in control at all levels agree with.
@@calamortahat's what happens when you let retarded people get the hold of a company and make a monopoly out of it, people have nowhere to go.
As far as I'm concerned, the term for that is "theft", if not actually fraud, and it should be treated as such. Sadly, the legal system in the USA is so f*cked up that sueing big corporations is nearly useless...
this is going to be a nightmare to enforce. I guarantee, adblock devs will come out on top
easy as hell to enforce when you know the whole story. it's not youtube wanting to get rid of adblocker, its google. all google has to do is disable browser extensions for Chrome. then every Chromium-based (most of them, unfortunately) browser will have disabled extensions. the ONLY solution will be to use a non-Chromium browser like Firefox.
@@fistovuzi I'm pretty sure that won't happen. Look what happened with Twitch's fight against adblockers
@@fistovuzi I doubt google will do that. also i dont think they could force Chromium based ones like opera to do it unless they have some kind of legal agreement with google since I would assume they arent beholden to google
@@fistovuzi that's not how chrome and chromium works
@@fistovuzi Not really, people will just open source browser extensions for adblock and you can import your own (using dev tools). Its really easy to do.
My worry is if they inject the ads at delivery (imagine it actually becomes part of the video streamed to your browser) it will look seemless code wise, and will be unblockable.
I have had over 3 million ads blocked since I installed my Adblock and I haven’t had it for that long which is crazy just how much adblocker affects my experience
I had 41 just refreshing this page to test if turning my adblock on and off would work by chance and it hit me with the "you have 2 videos remaining" 🥴
Yes because listening to a documentary while trying to sleep then being interrupted by a corpse-waking cacophony of ads in the middle of the night is such a great experience!
Hell without YT Premium you can't even turn the screen off to just listen to the audio. I use that feature every night. Months ago I decided to get the YT Premium family plan that covers 6 accounts. I split the cost with my cousin, so it only costs me $11 a month. And it covers me, my cousin, my dad, mom, sister, and niece. Having YT Music Premium thrown in with it is kind of nice too.
@@sean8102
I used to have Vanced and that feature is something I enjoyed about it. Now, I'm thinking of getting Premium. Sucks that I'm considering it since UA-cam seems to be getting worse.
@@Hyudurohey psst revanced
@@Hyuduro I'm using revanced and it works perfectly still
As an avid asmr listener I feel this 😑
They wouldn't lose so much money to adblock if their ads weren't so intrusive, and as long as they stay that way people will continue to fight.
I got adblock once UA-cam started taking away the “skip ad” buttons.
I already pay for my cellular internet, I’m not putting up with paying to watch youtube on the internet but also now having to pay to watch ads I didn’t even ask for.
I feel like we should be able to sue youtube for every megabyte of data we pay internet providers for, that youtube stole to feed us unsolicited advertisements
Personally I don't mind 5 second ads. Any longer than that feels like harassment though.
If you have options to make money or make more money, i guess it's obvious which one you'll pick
They werent running youtube at a loss, so they are not "losing" money really. They just want more money.
Excactly, there is a reason people hate these adds. If only they had a brain and looked at that problem but youtube brain not found.
UA-cam can try everything they can to stop ad blockers all they want. But the good thing is, someone out there will come up a way to bypass the block for the people that use ad blockers moving forward.
Read my name :)
I'm not so sure
@@idonthaveanamenoone3526 don't underestimate the people willing to put effort in fucking them CEOs up
Until they remove chrome extensions or something
ublock origin still working
Here in Europe we have the say a "Big Thank You" to the EEC Council for telling Utube they have no right to access the Viewers Details or Viewing HIstory.
They'll never block ad blockers. They'll always prevail.
Man I hope so.
Mine is still working perfectly
@@Pharo88 Mine had one hiccup (I use ublock) but I just refresh the page and its good
@@Pharo88 the changes are only happening for some people as an experiment, the change will hit you later, that or UA-cam is bad at detecting adblockers
@@mcjavabelike8320 mine isnt just a addblocker tho. Its its own navigator. So i dont use the app. Its like looking up youtube on chrome n watching it from there. I can also turn the phone off n it keeps playing. It pretty cool, best thing is, its freeeeee.
It's not just about ads, it's about tracking. After a 10 minute video ublock origin blocks around 100 trackers and it only grows with time. Most I had was 600 so far. They track everything, how long your mouse is on something, how long you're watching, reading comments, EVERYTHING. I'm not willing to give this up. It's not just about ads, it's privacy.
I've gotten upwards of 1500 blocks from uBlock Origin if the video's long enough or I leave the page open too long. Just now it only took 30 seconds to reach 510.
I am hovering on this comment and I can see uBlock's block count go up in the corner
Then stop using UA-cam, stop supporting a platform that keeps getting worse and worse for both creators and users.
@@noseboop4354
Using adblockers along with a network firewall means you can continue to use YT. Using a service without paying hurts a company's bottom line more than boycotts
@@noseboop4354 try being realistic for once
The tamper monkey extension on chrome already has a script called "anti adblock fock off", that works on most of the sites that have this anti adblock feature. i think they can modify it to bypass this stuff aswell.
Read my name :)❤❤❤
Ublock origin still works too
man the bots are real fucking fast
Man, coming here felt like opening my bug-infested shed on a hot summer day
@@Turtoile41 "hohoy lads let's fucking rush him"
Commercials and Ad's are one of the biggest, if not THE biggest, factors on the death of cable television and the rise of premium services. The lengths people will go to avoid a salesmen knows no limits!
once a hoover salesman goes to my door im just yeeting my own vacuum cleaner into his face
Lol then there's gonna be another one where that's like "Watch ad-free" but then they start using ads after being popular enough
Will that's why they block it. So you would buy UA-cam premium
@@ericfrolov148 ngl that's how they got me
@@ericfrolov148 eh, I bought premium so I can easily download vids in the morning to listen to while at work outside wifi and cell range for the day.
What's more maddening is half the ads on you tube are scams to get your info.
The fact he knows that ad-blockers would make him less money but still encouraging ad-blocking shows, Charlie is for the people
TBF those malware ads are a nightmare and will ruin your day, as Charlie brought up.
Read my name :)
Less money? Like 0.0005% less, wow Charlie, what a hero
@@ferminangelcarhuajulcaguil1196 lol
Of the people,by the people,for the people
I remember back in the day, youtube ads used to just be small banners at the bottom of the video and on the side where you see upcoming videos. They werent intrusive at all, and I didnt have an adblock until they became a headache, laggy, and even dangerous malware. Things were so much simpler and better in 2014.
2014 was a sneeze away. In 2006 youtube was so much fun.
I agree with you, but dangerous malware ads on youtube?
@@hunterklufen1845 yes.
@@hunterklufen1845 yes.
theres a shit ton of fake websites selling gaming chairs for ridiculous prices on my YT ads, and fake betting websites that ask you to download underground Apps in Play Store.
same, I installed adblockers out of pure necessity. If they want people to turn off their adblockers then they need to make the ad system better with less malicious ads, no ads over 15 seconds, and not flooding you with ads if you just watched some.
Gabe Newell said that Piracy is a service issue. I would say adblockers on UA-cam is a similar service issue. Making the service worse won't fix it and will just lead to further developed adblockers.
Once you get the taste of how wonderful an ad blocker is you cannot go back
Once you go block you can turn back
@@ssjrana7342 whah?
@@blocksofwater4758 once you go block you never go back
It's been so long I forgot I had one. When I accidentally open a youtube link on my phone and see an ad, my life flashes before my eyes i swear to god
i have ublock origin and nothing changed
just happened to me, Im extremely dissapointed by youtube
same
Same I got it last night 😵
u-block still works. disable the other adblocks, refresh ublock to the latest version and it should work. Watching your videos in incognito-mode or with a vpn (and with all ad-blocks enabeld) , also worked for me.......
rumble
@@VelociraptorAnimations rumble
what blows my mind is that when people started blocking ads, companies decided to try and force feed you ads instead of perhaps finding a less intrusive and obnoxious way to advertise their products
I wish UA-cam just listened to you here
Exactly, no one really talks about how intrusive ads have been for the past few years.
That would require creativity and patience, which corporations do not have.
@@badway420 because everyone either used ad blockers or are boomers who don't know better
Yeah I genuinely don't mind the ads when watching UA-cam on my TV. They're short and generally creators put them at sensible times.
PC is massively different though. Auto-playing, flashing ads and ones you have to interact with are just frustrating and take away from the experience.
To me, the ads are unacceptable. I get 2 unskippable 15-30 second ads at the beginning of every video and then a bunch of ads during the video. It's so bad that im using a Webbrowser with an AdBlocker on my phone to watch UA-cam instead of the app
Same here brother
Best part is getting a 15 second unskippable ad for a 5 second video
i remember when the 2 ads started rolling out i was like, ¨what the fuck?¨
Use UA-cam revanced for android
@@nareshfree First vanced NOW REVANCED?
If they're really going to disable Adblock, I'd expect them to crack down on all these shady and scammy web seminar ads and stop letting them clog most of my ad breaks.
I refuse to watch advertising where I can help, dropped cable, left twitch, waiting to see how long UA-cam will keep working.
@@Gillrien legend
I also exspect them to crack down on the ones copying the look of big channels to say you won a prize and to message them on a message app! those are rampant and have gotten better but not fixed.
@@Gillrienthere’s a twitch add block works perfectly
This... I don't have a problem with adverts but the clearly fake $5 for a $900 drone adverts are getting out of control.
I've had my own ad block system for years now. Something pops up, I hit the mute and do something else until it's gone. You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink.
UA-cam without AdBlock is borderline unwatchable on PC. Just the other day our teacher tried to show us a 20 minute video which was constantly interrupted by five ads total, two of them unskippable.
That really sucks.
it’s the same on mobile
@@levi6284 no it’s not
@@levi6284 use UA-cam every day on mobile and I’ve never got 5 ads after one another
@@levi6284 Want to watch that 7s meme video ? Here, have a 20s unskippable ad.
As much as it makes sense that they make this decision, dont let it slip your mind that they're fighting adblockers long before they've even touched on the prevalent issue of blatant sexually suggestive/misleading/scam advertisements. Classic UA-cam L
Actually mentally insane if you think you are the victim here just buy premium dude
@@Eyeupthebison Found the YT spy.
@Dunceinabag most ppl don't wanna pay for literally every website that exists.
@@EyeupthebisonUA-cam being @$$ and unfair = Ain't buying premium
Also, UA-cam is greedy corporate that never listens to community, why bother get premium when you can crack premium for free like we pirated Adobes.
hilariously ironic that you got a sexbot reply
I’ve been using UA-cam since I was 7, and I still remember a LOT of amazing things that UA-cam stopped doing, for example you were able to make little notes that would pop up whenever the UA-camr desired to and it was very creative and UA-camrs would use it always and it was fun.
You had ads on the side of the page, on top of the recommended videos and it worked, I saw the ads WHILE looking at what I want to see.
Edit: usually I would say thanks as this is (no shit) the biggest fucking amount of likes I've ever gotten, thanks guys, but I want to point out that I got this many likes and it just so happened I wanted to open notifications (something I usually don't to) and saw this, otherwise UA-cam shitty notification system would've NEVER told me about this, mind you, I remember notifications starting to be a problem all the way back to the famous ad-pocalypse supposedly caused by pewdiepie, UA-cam just paints the wall and never really covers the holes.
Whats going to piss you off, is that the youtube cards ("little notes") were removed because android/ios users had to suffer them. This was the beginning of google "mobile-izing" youtube. Meanwhile Google still insists on not doing advertisements like every other media source because Google thinks its so special that its OK to make users suffer for the money.
those i think were removed because people kept abusing them
Remember when you could text people on youtube? I think you could add them somehow but i use to talk to my friends.
Wait, annotations are considered a long-forgotten dead feature? Good lord I feel old
@@scribblecloud you could also just turn them off
A wise man once said this "To traverse the internet without AdBlock is akin to sailing the warp without a gellar field."
Agreed
Naah man, lower the gellar fields, exposure to the warp is quite healthy, this really nice dude called Erebus told me so.
What's this heresy?!
@@JAKphoenixify Filthy heretic, how should we exterminate you? Holy fire?
Was not expecting a 40k reference. Praise the Emperor!
Having no ad blocker is like walking through a mall with each and every shop having people giving out flyers 😂😂😂
Dave Chappell made a skit like that
More accurately, It's like walking through a mall and every store having people swarming you and sticking flyers to your face and body, blinding you, making it impossible to move and hear anything. Every website with ads feels like I have to physically fight my way through a mob. If UA-cam gets like that I'll just stop using the site.
Ok?
@@bunnywae And also there is a chance that some of those flyers contain anthrax. Not all but there is a chance
@@bunnywae My guy crying over skipable ads
I resonate so much with Charlie saying that he leaves a site instantly if it forces you to disable ad block.
If you're trying to read an article on a site that either demands you shut off adblock or is kept behind a paywall, one way around it is to put the link into an archiver site. 99% of the time, you'll get your article.
@@AngryReptileKeeper or inspect element and find the html of the text
@@AngryReptileKeeper You got a link to that Archiver site?
Many web sites will ask you to disable adblock and you just press "yes sure" and it lets you through even without you disabling.
@@DiggerDeeper01i believe the wayback machine is a really good one
if youtube actually succeedes in making ads mandatory, i will simply stop using youtube. i'll probably start reading more again
UA-cam will then find a way to force ads into books...
I completely agree, I wouldn't mind the ads if they werent so intrusive, I'd probably not mind not having an ad block. In youtube the problem is stopping the content to display the ad, instead of just being a window by the side like it used to be. It is just extremely annoying. I feel very sorry for kids nowdays that feel like this is normal, that they haven't seen the internet 10-15 years ago when things were just much more reasonable. I honestly feel disgusted by the way big companies (google, microsoft, EA, and others in the entertainment industry) are ever more abusive and dishonest.
Also sometimes I just wanna see the first 10 secs of a video to see if I would be interested in it/have seen it before/like the persons voice to fall asleep to. Sometimes on my PS4 I just wanna go back on the vid again that just fininshed to drop a like and its just not worth it. I always end up clicking off them
@@LIJVHAZ if you’re on mobile you can preview videos if you hold down on it and drag your finger slightly up or down
Agree!
Right
I wished we had 1 5 sec ad or skippable ad before a video, but apparently that isn’t enough money for them.
This will almost certainly just result in better ad blockers.
yeah, there's already adblockers that can get around detection systems, it's not that far fetched to think there'll jut be another one built for this piece of shit website
yeah, switched to the brave browser and it's been both blocking ads and been getting around a lot more adblock detectors than my previous adblocker
natural cyber-selection
The endgame is a new DMCA clause which makes it illegal to write code which blocks ads, in the same way that it's illegal to write code that circumvents DRM
Trying to block Adblock is just like companies trying to keep people from modifying or pirating their game. If the desire is strong enough people will still find a way to get through it.
Then they get hit with massive fines.
The skyrim multiplayer campaign getting nuked really sucked. (Bethesda's main policy is you can't add additional content but you can add to the original)
@@coryyoung7544 people getting around adblock will not get people fined.
@@coryyoung7544 That makes no sense.
I am already working on it lol...just giving it a try
@@coryyoung7544 Im not super educated so don't flame me if I'm wrong, but I don't know that there are many fines to be handed out for using or creating an ad blocking software. Its UA-cam's terms so they can ban you, but I don't know that the court gives a shit.
I first coded a script to remove that "You are using an adblock" window, until, a month later, it gave me the three strikes and you are out window.
UA-cam created this issue. The only reason I ever started using AdBlock was BECAUSE of UA-cam's obnoxious and excessive advertising. They got greedy and it exacerbated the issue for themselves.
I was gonna write this exact same comment. 100 percent agree
People would still use AdBlock if advertisements were less intrusive. It's still 5+ seconds that people don't want to watch.
Not to mention their strategy for countering adblock was to make ads even more fucking infuriating lmao
Literally every other web page i visit only have those little static ads at the side or in between that barely gets in the way, more even, sometimes they DO show me something interesting to buy as long as you can tell isn't malware. This is not the case with UA-cam, because they bring commercials while playing a video and is like watching TV again (That was already annoying enough and the very reason why internet became the best option)
Yea because they didn't used to have 3 ads before, in the middle, and after videos
Big ups for big brain UA-cam who is shutting down adblocks so developers can get better at programming just to bypass the security system! Great push up for our internet engineers!
really helping the youth
That's technically true. I mean YT hid the dislikes, and some browser addons reveled them. Thankfully my noScript/ABP combo seems to be unaffected by all this so far. As noScript seems to be blocking the adblock detection script. But that may change.
@buckrogers1162 I wouldn't mention which apps work, wouldn't surprise me if UA-cam has scripts to notify who is mentioning the subject of this video and which apps are still functioning :)
no one can make coding challenges like big companies trying to make us pay for things!
@@TheLordGingerJesus,
I'm not worried about it. As YT ain't intelligent enough to do that.
Hell, they couldn't even get their damn algorithm to not repeatedly kick It'sAGundam off the partner program for 'Reused Content'; When all he did was upload his videos twice, once for the premium subs, which I'm guessing where fully uncensored, and once for non-premium subs.
But the thing is that he still has to censor every swear he may use or face outright removal of the vid. Something that YT has lowered it's requirements on, but he still cannot swear at all lest he face the full might of being buried.
Like I said, YT ain't all that intelligent. And their algorithm is full on 'Yellow short bus'.
If game devs can't stop cheaters, I doubt UA-cam is gonna be able to stop ad blockers.
Tbf game devs don't want to stop cheaters lmfao
Game devs have no financial incentives to stop cheaters
UA-cam on the other hand has many incentives to stop adblockers.
Its not the same
Adblock Is Not A Cheat.
@@Giliver Adblock will evolve too
The goal is not to eliminate adblockers entirely, but to minimize them as much as possible.
If youtube wants to stop ad blockers to "support creators"... maybe they should pay who we watch and not "who we watch but only who is "worthy" according to their (i)moral standards".
The worst part about this whole situation is that UA-cam for months now has been known to play ads on videos uploaded by channels that don’t meet the requirements for Ad-Sense, meaning UA-cam gets to reap all the rewards with non-consensual ads on creator’s videos who don’t see a dime of the ad revenue. Absolutely disgusting.
Edit: Wow, a lot of bootlickers in the comments lol.
Do you think it’s free for the creators to spend their time/money on making content for this platform? People dedicate years of their lives making UA-cam videos only to get nowhere financially, and it’s even sadder seeing UA-cam directly profiting from these hard working creators who get NOTHING in return. I personally am a small creator, and if UA-cam is making money off of the videos that I MADE, than I DESERVE to see some of that money.
The creators are the lifeblood of this website, UA-cam wouldn’t be making ANY money whatsoever without the creators, so how is it fair that UA-cam gets to bring down the viewer experience by placing ads on videos that DON’T support the creator? We don’t watch ads on this site to support a multi-billion dollar company that doesn’t care about its user base, we watch ads to support the content creators who pour their blood, sweat and tears into making content for the viewers.
My point is that if UA-cam is gonna place ads on smaller creator’s channels, they should see some of the money made from it, even if it’s only a tiny amount.
Yes, I understand UA-cam is a company that needs money to function, but they should be more open to a revenue split with smaller creators because some people spend years making content and don’t get a cent of revenue from their work, and seeing UA-cam directly mooching off of these people is gross to me.
Side note: Tell me with a straight face that you’re okay with clicking on a 5 second clip or meme of something, only to get a 15 second unskippable ad beforehand. Let-alone x2 ads, 15 seconds each, on a video clip that’s less than 10 seconds. They should just call this site AdTube. It used to be ads in between videos, now it’s videos between ads.
bro what? do you know how privileged you sound rn
@@jizzmastercumstackName checks out
Months? More like YEARS! I remember hearing about that back in the pre-covid days! Even MORE reasons why we should keep running ad block programs on this shit-hole website!
@@jizzmastercumstack ?
@@jizzmastercumstack bro what
It's insane to me how I've watched the internet go from being a really cool and freeing medium to literally unusable
its called moneeeys
To think that UA-cam went from "Broadcast Yourself" to this
welcome to capitalism, it fucks everything up eventually
Yup, that's all thanks to crapitalism and greed. Oh well.
It’s insane that people expect everything to be handed to them for free even if it’s something they use almost every day, you think UA-cam is going to use their own money to pay content creators?
Every other youtuber: “Please disable adblock while watching my videos”
Charlie: “I encourage everyone to use adblock”
List more than like 2 youtubers who have over a million subscribers who have legitimately fully unironically consistently said "disable adblock when watching my videos" & hasn't gotten completely destroyed by their audience. More Charlie dick-sucking
The difference might be that he has enough other sources of income to where ad revenue isn't necessary for him, he's even purposefully losing money by supporting esport teams because he thinks it's fun. Many creators are probably dependent on ad revenue to make enough for it to be viable for them to continue creating that content.
@@XirevWoW Bullshit, if they make enough money to not need a real job, they can probably tank the hit from the adblock.
I have literally never heard a UA-camr say "please disable adblock". What garbage do you watch lol
@ Content creation is not a consistent source of income. Certain months are better than others and videos might not perform as you might have expected. You might be fine one month but not be able to pay your bills the next one. Considering the possibility of sickness which can lead to a big loss in revenue is also a factor. Having a decent buffer as a content creator is almost mandatory.
They've tried this plenty of times over the years. The ad blocks always evolve, they can't be stopped.
as i said in another video about the same subject... ask twitch users.
@@Eichro tru
And even if, the last bastion is blocking the incoming ad traffic paths with a raspberry pi that’s connected to your wifi. You don’t even need to know programming.
@@EichrotwitchLOL works on twitch
@@Eichro adblock does work with twitch, you just need multiple
As a senior Ive used adblock for only 10 years but was so pissed off on their experiment. Ive figured out a work-around.
If they put as much effort into vetting the legitimacy of all ads on their platform as they do hammering creators then we would have nothing to worry about.
@Blamblo I'm convinced TikTok wouldn't have exploded like it did if young kids weren't savvy enough to have ad blockers and it was advertised everywhere.
I notice now it's the main place lots of people go for short form content it's no longer adevrtised. I'm not usre if it's because Tiktok stopped paying for ads or UA-cam stopped taking them due to them being competitor, but if it's the latter then you know for sure UA-cam doesn't give two shits about what their advertising.
@Blamblo Just the other day I got an ad for that stupid mobile game with the keys puzzle thingy where the protagonist was straight up in the middle of a giant slime girl's tits
UA-cam will allow this shit and yet demonetize creators for the shittiest reasons
As an OSRS player the amount of luring and phasing ads on UA-cam is nutty.
This. So many sites bitch about AdBlock, but can't be bothered to take the effort to filter out the literal malware out of their ads.
Like honestly I am fine with the plugs being thrown to the creators, creator makes their own ad incorporates it in their channel content then its gonna at least on some level be tolerable and properly timed. Rather than sometimes you get a loading error that resets your ad timing. Also, an ad is too much when it literally continuously covers the content you are there for. I can't focus and read if there is a flashing video or bar in my text. Also why should my data go towards their ad? are they gonna compensate me the data cost?
If you see this ad block message, close youtube on that device and stop using youtube on it as much as possible. You are a beta tester for this, if it looks like people are willing to deal with it, it'll only get worse and worse. You think a 15 second ad is bad? give them an inch they'll take a mile, its only gonna get worse if we let it.
your comment must be higher
bumping this
Yea, just look at Twitch. I have to sit through like two 2 minutes ads and I use ad block. That shit is unbearable
Bump on this too, don’t become a data point for them to use against you
😇
I'm glad UA-cam is putting its might behind defeating evil ad blockers and ignoring false copyright strikes and the sex/comment/telegraph bots.
@@desmondjordan8289 exactly
@Dont-Read-My-Profile-Picture.0Leave.
Sarcasm.
Or leaving stuff that is clearly not for kids as content for kids. Great work, UA-cam. Priorities, right?😂😂
Finally. It's here.
I believe that UA-cam is making a big mistake by assuming that there is anything on their website that I am interested in watching more than avoiding ads. If I'm unable to block ads, then I will simply stop using UA-cam. They need to find a better way to make money without driving their audience away. In my opinion, this is a bad business model that needs to be reevaluated.
Stop lying to yourself, you will not stop consuming content on youtube lol
yeah especially now with rumble, telegram and others
Quick tip: When a video begins you should pause, drag the time all the way to the end, then back about 5-6 seconds. Once you've done that let it play or hit play for the ending 5-6 seconds. When the video is "over" you can then drag the time to the beginning and play it from. The start without any ads.
This works for 24+ hour videos as well, even "free" movies with ads.
@Dont_Read_My_User_Photo let's see when you finally get blocked
@@p-__ almost funny
I thought this didn't work anymore
@Dont_Read_My_User_Photo let’s hope UA-cam blocks these bots
@Zidan Syahab you're right it doesn't, it stopped working years ago 💀
Not only are the ads intrusive, they also tend to be really sleazy. Many of the ads I see are either for sketchy products that are probably scams, fake links that most likely download viruses, or literal porn sites.
That's because the ads are tailored to you.
@@StuninRub bro exposed himself
@@StuninRub even with tailored ads off, this still happens. And just because it may be tailored to you, does not excuse the fact that youtube allows these scumbags to advertise dangerous links to people.
@@StuninRub Google pushes a lot of shitty mobile games that are basically porn regardless of targeted ads. I've had tailored ads active for a a while and even input what I would like Google to advertise to me and it's still just suggestive mobile game ads.
all i ever get is gambling and weird mobile games fr
Adblock developers will always find a way around this
uBlock Origin already has.
@@BargainBarons true, also it can be done with tampermokey but then you must know some javascript.
UWU AHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAH
thx dude, i was searching this info@@BargainBarons
@@BargainBaronsand i using a 2 week olds method
Just script + clear cache lol
100% of my clicks on ads on mobile are desperate attempts to close that ad.
First, they made the internet unusable, then the adblockers kicked back, now we have an adblocker war.
The only options to settle this are:
1. Reduce the ads so that the sites are usable and fun again.
2. Make the premium option so cheap that its a no-brainer. I cannot afford subscribing on 40 or more websites just to have a hassle-free experience.
It's like you said: If a website insists on deactivating the adblocker, i am gone.
The problem has always been that ads got more and more intrusive.
I never had a problem with ads being somewhere on the side of a webpage.
Problem became when you started getting ads with distracting flashing effects, popups appearing out of nowhere when opening a page or just clicking somewhere, which often also lead to scams and malware, when ads started making sounds, all to the bullshit we have now with being forced to watch multiple unskippable videos, not only at the start, but often also in the middle of a video and at the end.
There's a few websites I disabled my adblocker for. Not because they forced me to, but because they had a simple explanatory message that they need the revenue, and they promise to not have any intrusive BS ads on their site.
Just stop trying to be more and more intrusive with these ads, because all it does is make people install more adblockers. It's similar to how pumping videogames full of Denuvo and other crap that makes the game run worse is not helping.
So true. I clicked for the video, not TWO unskippable 5s+ ads. (5s+ because the ad continues if you don't tap "skip" fast enough). The greed.
YES! I actually still have a few things I got by clicking (legit) banner ads back when ads were a reasonable part of the internet.
As soon as I got an ad that auto-played audio but was not visible without scrolling, I began militantly blocking ads.
not to mention all the unskippable ads selling a product that is either against m gender demographic OR my personal taste against feminine beauty BS that does nothing for me except get eczema breakouts :/
my biggest issue was that many of them also started to be "sexual", especially on news or like forum sites. Maybe it isn't like that anymore, but you really don't want to open up a website and get all these extra windows with naked ladies on them (I'm a straight woman btw)
That's the point. If the ads were only on specific part of the sites, not randomly popping up, not taking 90% of the website's space, not being long, forced and annoying, it would be okay. I remember the times, when You has the side bars with the ads. And this was okay. But now ads are literally everywhere. If You turn off the adblock, You have ads everywhere. This is a joke. They expect people to use website like this? I should be the one who decide to click on an ad if I am interested. Because ads in the Internet are like a guy who sticks posters everywhere on Your house. Outside, inside, on Your car, even on Your face. That's what Internet ads look like today. And they do *everything* to make sure You accidently click on the ad. Either by faking the X, or by suddenly popping it up. And half of the ads are annoying. Like some kind of sex games. WTAF? I don't want to see such things. If I wanted to watch porn, I just would. Or play porn games. I don't want to see ads about these. TV ads were said to be intrusive. But Internet ads are long surpassed the annoyance. It's literally a unwanted trash.
As a teacher who enjoys using videos to make my classes more interesting, I am so disappointed that this ended up happening.
G.o.a.t. teacher
teacher that watches moistcr1tikal is golden
I'm a teacher as well and ads in the classroom really do disrupt the learning environment, especially the more risqué ads that play.
You a real one teacher, wish I was in your class as a kid.
Russian servers don't have ads. Now I'm not sure VPN Russian servers exist, but that's an option
I've used ad blockers almost from when they came out. I have also not watched network TV for around 20 years. I recently went on holiday and watched regular TV in my hotel room and I found it almost unwatchable. The sheer amount of time they showed adverts vs the amount of time they showed the actual program was crazy to me.
Not only do I also not put up with sites that require me to turn my ad blocker off, I do not use sites that do not allow me to very quickly disable all cookies. And sites that require you to set up an account like Facebook do not exist for me.
Compare the running times of older 30 minute comedies from the 1980s, 1970s and older and you'll see the show is about 26 minutes of show and 4 minutes of commercials. Now its about 18 to 20 with 10 to 12 minutes of ads. That isn't something I will tolerate. I gave up commercial TV about 10 years ago and only watch streaming services now.
Don't forget about the in-program ads, as well. Damn near unwatchable
Yes, I'm very annoyed at the websites who only allow you access w/a FB login. Like WTF having a stupid FB account should not be a requirement for using ANY other website! Still I follow a few small companies who love using FB for live events or giveaways and I keep emailing them telling them it's not fair to those of us who refuse to use FB. Do it on a more neutral platform!
@@SaneMillennial I have never come across one of these. I have come across ones that allow the option to log in with your FB, Google or other major website account, but not one that requires just FB and does not even allow you to create an account on the website itself. Unless the site requires access to FB to work, I can't imagine someone restricting themselves in such a way.
@@Farmer_El z
That's the only way to enjoy watching TV or stuff in general. I have not turned on a TV or watched linear tv broadcast for 10years++ too
bold of them to think i wont be able to find an undetectable one
These companies really act like viewing ads is our moral obligation
"Are you really gonna take money from these poor multibillion dollar corporations?"
They just want to take our time. Ads never see a cent from me but they take my time from me every time.
If you use UA-cam for free you kinda are obligated
its not a moral obligation for you to consume free entertainment either, most ads are chill and skippable, i agree 15-30second non skippables are annoying tho
im not even a creator but i understand that the free content creators i watch make money off of me watching their ads, it's a simple circle
Won't someone think of those poor billionaires and their monocles? LOL
@@p-__proof? I'm a sensual learner btw
The funny thing is, Google their parent company knows that the more obnoxious the ads a site has, the more likely people are to install AdBlock. I say know, because I seem to remember like a decade ago they made a report about it.
yeah and I think it probably wasn't google's decision but rather the new ceo of youtube, they say he is a crypto guy who hates adblock and I think that makes sense
In a pre-holiday public service announcement, the FBI said that cybercriminals are buying ads to impersonate legitimate brands, like cryptocurrency exchanges. Ads are often placed at the top of search results but with “minimum distinction” between the ads and the search results, the feds say, which can look identical to the brands that the cybercriminals are impersonating. Malicious ads are also used to trick victims into installing malware disguised as genuine apps, which can steal passwords and deploy file-encrypting ransomware.
One of the FBI’s recommendations for consumers is to install an ad blocker.
This is literally the reason why I got an addblock.
I used youtube for over a decade before I installed one, because the adds were tolerable, and the amount of them was not like 5 per video and each lasting from 2 to 20 f*ing minutes! And even that would have been tolerable, until every single one of the adds was some migraine inducing mobile game add that I swear have contributed to by dental care costs the amount of teeth grinding they caused.
getting 10 ads on a 5 minute video.
in the future i will just rip the whole fucking video and watch em ad free.
Yes I remember too. Not only they were saying ads should stay minimal, they were saying that adblock users are a small percentage of overall users and they have no need to bother them.
OH how the turn tables huh...
We'll see a surge in adblockers. You'll need to have like 10 of them installed just for one to work :D
As someone who regularly listens to yt videos on my phone to sleep. Ive often find myself waking up in the middle of a 30 minute lecture advertisement. Not a joke. A whole classwork of a single add
SERIOUSLY I HATE THOSE. i miss the days of poo pourri
I use Brave browser on my phone. Never had an add on yt with it.
lmaoooo
The ones that pop up in the middle of a video or music playlist video are the worst when trying to sleep, especially when they are 5 times louder than the video
fr i listen to podcasts to sleep and its so goddamn annoying when u have to get up every 5 minutes and click the skip ad button. i hate midrolls so much
- Indeed, I noticed that recently. First I could click away the YT popup. Then they added a timer so I had to wait before I could click it away. Then they got really nasty and said that "3 more times and the videoplayer will be blocked".
- People who use an adblocker, don't want to see ads. So it's really sad to tell us "tough luck, you will have to watch it anyway". It doesn't make me want to buy the stuff from the ads, it just turns me off from it, as well as it turns me off from YT for pushing it against my will.
- Advertising is the reason that I can't stand television anymore, and why I don't use apps on my smartphone. It's sad though because there are fun content creators on YT that I follow. I don't mind content creators recommending products related to their channel topic. I don't even mind supporting channels financially sometimes, from which YT takes an unproportionally big commission anyway. But selling adspace to advertisers to fund their business, and then pushing those ads on unwilling viewers ... I wish YT the same fate as other media that want to show me stuff I don't want to see. If I want to buy something, I'll search for it myself thank you very much. How effed up is this world that advertising far outweighs actual content ?
Thanks, UA-cam, for single-handedly showing why big tech needs to be sued for creating monopolies.
Absolutely. All the money for public uploading is here,and that is unacceptable. Money rules the world, and the rich are corrupt.
Laughs in Alphabet Inc.
Someone better confess who pissed off a major ad company
Not your servers, not your datas, youtube is not a public service
Because they want to avoid losing large amounts of money??
Every other youtuber : "Disable adblock while watching my videos please"
Charlie : "I encourage everyone to use adblock"
@Dont_Read_My_User_Photo Hurensohn
what youtuber has said the first one
@@silkymoths Linus tech tips did so I just stopped watching his videos
never heard anyone saying that ever
Truly he is the internet messiah. "render unto caesar, but if they're a dick fuck 'em."
"If a website asks me to disable adblock I leave" sums it up perfectly. I'm not watching youtube without an adblock.
Hentai Haven is the exception
I sort of agree with you, but at the same time, UA-cam is trying to make money. And if they don't make money, then it's going to be harder to pay content creators. And if content creators aren't getting paid enough, they won't create content. It's a lose lose situation.
Then leave😂 youtube wont care
thats some good wood
@@TKdrizzle they already arent paid by YT. id imagine most big youtubers make a living off merch, sponsors or patreon
My adblocker is working. They know that users even without recieving ads are highly valuable to them.
The real biggest problem with this is the fact that these corporations are becoming richer while we are becoming poorer. So not only are we getting poorer, but our time is getting wasted as well.
Exactly. A first solution for the Internet would be to use RSS Feeds. Just inform yourself about it and enjoy :)
Welcome to capitalism!
make sure you send money to moist, he offers absolutely nothing and now he isn't getting paid for it
@@3nertia nothing to do with capitalism. It has to do with these F9ckers wanting more money. NOTHING to do with X or Y
Don't turn this into political shit pls..
The sad part is that, theres a good chance they'll implement it. 99% of people complained about the Dislikes being removed, demanding UA-cam to keep them and they just went "Lol we'll do it anyway cause the corporations channels said it bothers them"
It wasn't just corporations. It was the government. They can't handle an l+ratio.
@@cavalierliberty6838 Aye for sure. Also the fact that most people will buy UA-cam Premium to save them hassle also makes it likely, since UA-cam will see the boost in sales and call it worth from there
You can still see dislikes it just depends on what you use
Video dislikes are easily seen with browser addons. My old YT add blocker was blocked by YT some time ago, switched to another that is still working. Non issue, good people gonna come up with workarounds f u YT
I mostly use youtube because there's a wide variety of creators that don't use rumble
but if youtube wants to play hard to get I'm just not gonna bother with it, take for instance donald trump's CNN town hall, rumble has it, but youtube wouldn't show it, except for CNN highly edited fake news clips, on rumble I get to see trump, and I get to see unadulterated trump
All this does is motivate someone to build a better ad blocker.
All this does is start a pointless arms race we've already won.
Yeah like they did with the dislikes. There's an extension that displays them.
I'll make my own ad blocker! With blackjack and hookers!
Ublock orgin still works just fine
Pretty sure it's taken them this long to address it because they Know people will just try to get around it the second they do something. So instead of pushing out half-assed attempts to deal with it they've invested a lot of time and money into it. Whether it pays off for them only time will tell. But I'm fairly certain they've put a lot into this for the very specific reason that it's Not going to be easy to get around like people think it is.
Thank you for posting this video. It's refreshing to hear a creator who actually gets it. :)
Here's an idea - how about instead of just fighting an arms race against adblockers, companies created features and content that made people want to buy premium, not just find ways around artificial limitations? Frankly, I think a lot of these companies are just overestimating how much people want to use their sites.
Or rather how people don't care to switch. In big numbers, things like these won't make a single difference. They don't underestimate or overestimate anything. They know it won't change much even if people leave because they will come back. Try LBRY though, a bunch of creators already moved. It's owned by the users, no big tech.
I'm pretty sure that if they added back channel skins, youtube would have millions of people with premium.
since some people don't have money to buy premium, i'm also one of them.
@@TomoG4ch4_Alan94 I just like using YT Music over Spotify since YT Premium + Music costs the same as Spotify but has more songs that Spotify doesn't have like some anime intro songs or remixes by smaller artists + background no ad play on 1+ hour youtube videos like background noise.
the valve approach to anti piracy
Every other youtuber: “Please disable adblock while watching my videos!”
Charlie: “I encourage everyone to use adblock”
Such a chad.
The man is already rich enough but i respect that honestly
I rarely see anyone encourage the use of turning of add blocker tbh
If companies make ads less intrusive I am happy to stop using adblock.
like TV commercials with unregulated volumes.
How would they make it less intrusive? The whole point is they want you to know about the company, but you're not on the internet to learn about companies and advertisements. This is some black mirror shit, and it only gets worse.
Stop the 🧢
Right most? Most ads feel like they are talking to me the way my cousin talks to her toddler, like miss me with that
i agree.. the ones that sit on the side or bottom and dont actually blocks the video from playing but remains in clear view for 20-30 seconds dont bother me at all..
Ad-Blocker is alive and well.. and long may it continue.
period.
Charlie wearing a black shirt really shows you how much tragedy this is.
Read my name :)😂🎉
Safe bet this comment will always be there if he does.. 🙄
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@Pork same 🤣
UA-cam: "We will block ad-blockers"
Ad-blocker creators: "Ok, well we'll bypass that"
UA-cam: "Wait that's not fair!"
Inb4 UA-cam sends a hit man after you in the future for using ad blockers.
@@foppypoof5195 send the Pinkertons 😂
I'm sure Ublock Origin devs are already working on that
Long live Ublock Origin
@@sihamhamda47 I'm using ublock origin and firefox and I haven't gotten the ad block warning yet
they will never pull it off without some kind of app that belongs to them. as long as they allow you access through third party browsers there isnt a damn thing you tube can do other than beg
The crackdown on personal internet security and safe browsing is something I will show no quarter over. When a company tries to prevent me from browsing safely, I try to look up their parent company and all the products they offer, and add them to a blacklist I keep. I will never use or say anything positive to others about any of those products (even if I used them previously and was satisfied) and will make an effort to become familiar with competitors even for products I'm not personally in a market for, and push other people towards those competitors when the offending company's equivalent is mentioned or somebody asks for a relevant recommendation.
That sounds both neurotic and absolutely fantastic
as someone in cybsec i love this mindset
Welp, that's one way to miss out.
Bro is Light Yagami
you should share that list tho 👀
Funnily enough YT found out that Opera had an adblocker.
When Charlie mentioned those guys who claimed that watching vids with adblockers is piracy i kinda came to think "Damn, if i have to pirate free content then that means there is something fundamentally wrong with the platform and it's management"
@@xabhax nobody even mentioned Linus
@@xabhax Ya, if people were somehow watching his YT Red content for free - he would have a point. However, the majority of his viewership will be the content he posts to the free side of YT. And he makes way more money of sponsorships in a month or two than he does in two years of adverts viewed.
Even those mobile game apps pay big, like $10k for one sponsorship video segment.
@@ReinMixTape So if you made websites on the side and 10K a month from that, I could take it cause its not your main source of income?
What is it then? You pay for it by watching an ad, therefore not watching an ad is theft- piracy
@@richardhobbs7360 I would not run optional ad-rolls if I operated a professional website. The ad networks do not vet their adverts. Not even YT properly vets the adverts it shows.
However, if was operating a setup in which content had a sponsored segment I had vetted and filmed plus an ad-rolls on top. I'd be fine with some people skipping the optional ad-rolls. I'd still make a lot of money because of the highly paid sponsored segments per video ($10,000~$100,000.) The income per optional ad-roll viewed is less than 0.05 cents.
AdBlock devs are so good at what they do, I'm sure they will have something cooking hard. In a way I'm optimistic that anti-anti-adblockers may finally let me unlock other websites without worrying about malware again.
They'll just update adblock to work around youtube cutting out adblock
Anti-anti-adblockers already exist. Adguard has it built in.
Not quite, Chrome with Manifest V3 has significantly underminded Adblockers in what it can do
It's UA-cam. This shit will be settled in a day.
We saw how well hiding dislikes turned out. I can still see dislikes unless the uploader turned them completely off.
@@kserrata you never accidentally clicked on something before?
One of the reasons i also use adblockers is that half of the ads on UA-cam and other sites are either malware or scams.
As a simple observation, if ads are paying for your 'free' service, it's not free.
if it's a free service, then the merchandise is you/your data to begin with so there is nothing free there
He knows that he’ll make less with the ad-blockers on and STILL tells people to get them, Charlie is truly for the people!
We've seen this guy buy a warehouse and fill it full of gokarts and giant dildos, nobody is worried about Charlies financial situation.
his channel was never monetized in the first place, he donates everything off from his youtube channel
@@matrixcsr Just from the room he is in alone this guy clearly is not broke
No, you're wrong. Charles is just smart enough to know his audience. He knows if he feigns being 'for the people', fanboys like you will blow their load, and consume even more of his content. Google will take care of his revenue for him, as they're doing now by blocking ad blockers.
@@richardjames123 My guy he probably makes like 30 cents from the ads on this video. It means nothing.