![]() I haven’t been to fraud-tube in so many years I’ve lost track. >”Will you use YouTube without an ad blocker?” I use Luakit on GNU/Linux, and I use a terminal browser with which I can play audio and video using the MPV player. Additionally, Falkon, Seamonkey and Waterfox are all able to render the vast majority of sites. Pale Moon works on about 97%-99% of sites, and for the 1%-3% where it doesn’t, users can keep Librewolf or Mullvad browser on hand as a secondary browser. >”If you want to ditch the Chrome ecosystem completely, the only choice is Mozilla Firefox.” Will you use YouTube without an ad blocker? If you want to ditch the Chrome ecosystem completely, the only choice is Mozilla Firefox. Microsoft Edge will continue supporting Manifest V2 until 2024, but if privacy is a concern, I don't think you're going to be happy with Edge. Both browsers come with built-in content blockers, and since they will continue to support Manifest V3 and V2 APIs, add-ons like uBlock Origin should work better on them than with Chrome. If you're looking to switch from Google Chrome but still want a Chromium-based browser, I would recommend taking a look at Brave and Vivaldi. Manifest V2 isn't going away just yet, but you may as well make the move now. If Chrome stands in your way, maybe it is time to step away from it. Should you risk your privacy by disabling your ad blocker? No. It's about the freedom to use it the way you want to. That's the whole point behind blocking ad blockers, it's all about the money, and Google wants to get its share by displaying ads or Premium subscription.įrom a user's perspective, this poses a bigger issue. It won't be able to partner with advertisers, which in turn would result in a significant loss of revenue, probably more than what it makes from selling Premium subscriptions. But if that happened, the platform's usage and economy would take a nosedive. If the company wants to kick freeloaders from using YouTube, maybe it should go full premium like Netflix or Amazon Prime, and discontinue the free tier. For reference, YouTube Premium has over 80 million users, it costs $12 per month in the U.S, and £11.99 in the UK. It's not like Google is a startup, it doesn't need your funds to bear the server costs and survive. You could use a system-wide ad blocker like NextDNS or AdGuard to deal with the problem, but not everyone is going to resort to such measures. ![]() Many videos have multiple embedded ads, which are a complete waste of time. Video ads are often unskippable, repetitive, irrelevant, loud, may use up chunks of your data. YouTube ads not only pose a privacy risk, they are also annoying in many ways. ![]() It remains to be seen how content blockers will deal with it. Here are some YouTube ads: Yay or Nay?īut YouTube detecting an ad blocker is a different issue, a more serious one. Raymond Hill, the developer of uBlock Origin had explained that the tab loading process could let some ad requests slip through before the extension's filters kick into effect at browser start up, this issue was addressed in a workaround in version 1.40 of the popular add-on. You may run into ads on YouTube when you open your web browser, and it reloads tabs from the previous session. ![]() The Mountain View company has consistently been working on combating ad blockers, and keeps changing stuff on the back end. This isn't the first time YouTube ads have been problematic with content blockers. The new API for web extensions cripples the functionality of content blockers from working efficiently, and without access to webRequest, there isn't really a proper solution for this mess. The elephant in the room is, of course, Manifest V3. It went after a popular client called YouTube Vanced that allowed users to watch ads without a Premium subscription, and killed the app. As Android Police notes, it has previously banned ad blocker apps from the Play Store. Google is infamous for its anti-ad stance. So essentially, you will not be able to watch a YouTube video without disabling the ad blocker. A moderator on the subreddit commented that a member of the YouTube team at Google had confirmed to them that the pop-up was an experiment. Another user says they saw a similar warning on Firefox and uBlock Origin and theorized that it could be a slow roll out. YouTube is blocking ad blockersĪ comment from the user who reported the pop-up says that they were using Chrome with uBlock (likely uBlock Origin). ![]() It also displayed two options: a button to allow YouTube ads, while the other is for YouTube Premium. The message (pictured below) says that ads allow YouTube to stay free for billions of users, and tells that you can ad-free with YouTube Premium. ![]()
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