YouTube is running an experiment asking some users to disable their ad blockers or pay for a premium subscription, or they will not be allowed to watch videos.
It’ll happen. I just hope that it will just become semi-diffucult to do it, so that non-technical people give in so Google is happy, then the 0.1% of us can enjoy our adblocked youtube.
There is Nanodefender for Firefox. Just be aware that there are different versions of this for Firefox and chome but those will actually track you. The original developer sold their code to people with bad intentions, this is a fork.
This will lead to an increase of ad-blocker-blocker-blocker development.
The adblocking arms race escalates further!
yo dawg I heard you like blockers
It’ll happen. I just hope that it will just become semi-diffucult to do it, so that non-technical people give in so Google is happy, then the 0.1% of us can enjoy our adblocked youtube.
Came here to say this as well. It’s a game of cat and mouse.
They already exist and are quite effective, I wonder whether YouTube is able to detect those too
So you’re saying we need an ad-blocker-blocker-blocker-blocker-blocker.
Wait really? Is there a recommended extension for this?
There is Nanodefender for Firefox. Just be aware that there are different versions of this for Firefox and chome but those will actually track you. The original developer sold their code to people with bad intentions, this is a fork.