YT wot

[ceagle]

Apparently today is the day. YouToob has been talking about blocking ad blockers for a while, and yesterday everything was smooth... but as of this evening, it is complaining. I don't actually have an ad blocker running, but I use Vivaldi and Opera most of the time, and they have some ad-blocking features built in that work to some extent, even if not fully.

Ironically, YT has for a LONG time accepted payments from ad-blocker companies to sell those tools!

Looks like it will be an adventure now to find out how to view YT enjoyably. I like to have a balance, and not too much insanity with the interruptions. Will have to see if there's a way to still achieve that. Experiments ahead!

Comments

[sabotlours.livejournal.com]

When I saw "YT" I thought it was going to be a post about race ;P

[c-eagle.livejournal.com]

LOL ... that's the prob with abbreviations... sometimes they have multiple designations!

[hastka.livejournal.com]

Yeah, adblockers I used all stopped working a looong time ago, but that's crappy that they're amping up the effort. Hopefully there'll be some cat-and-mouse that will result in some better options. I actually wouldn't mind ads so much if they: 1) made any sense, or 2) weren't EVERY SINGLE VIDEO, sometimes multiple times. And you can skip some of them after a couple minutes anyway, so they already know the ad is likely to be pointless I guess?

I kinda-sorta (though not 100%) understand the reasons it's not feasible to go back to the old days where the internet just piggybacks on other companies for free, but you'd think google of all places could find ways to pull in income in less-pedestrian ways.

[c-eagle.livejournal.com]

I gather that they started the push around Summertime, but I didn't feel it I guess because my main machine (on Opera) lets a few through now and then, so YT is satisfied... but on another machine I use Vivaldi, and I guess its recent update was strict enough that I saw the YT intercept for the first time.
I went to Safari over there and it seems to be happy again... although... soooo many ads... ;P

You really nailed it when you said we'd expect them to act less pedestrian... but they seem to be in not-so-great phase of late...

I tried Dailymotion and it's even more strict at the moment!

[hastka.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I've noticed a couple places that at least attempt to guilt you into compliance by saying "we rely on ads" and giving you the option of "continue without supporting us." But it seems like even NYT and its ilk are starting to adwall things. I guess they can't gouge so many people $2.50 or whatever for their print copies, so fair enough that they need to get the money from elsewhere, but I'm not paying for a subscription to something that 1) google sent me to based on the full text they're not letting me see, and 2) I use for one article a month, MAYBE. I dunno. I guess I'm cynical though.