Posted on 10/15/2023 1:11:41 PM PDT by ducttape45
The experiment is meant to urge users to disable their ad blockers or subscribe to YouTube Premium.
YouTube is looking to take a more aggressive approach in preventing viewers from using ad blockers while watching videos on its platform. As BleepingComputer reports, people have been posting screenshots on social networks like Reddit that show a pop-up notice warning them that their player will be blocked after three videos.
The warning says YouTube will block their ability to play videos on the platform unless they disable their ad blocker or add the website to their white list. "Ads allow YouTube to stay free for billions of users worldwide," the notice continues. To go ad-free, the company tells users to get a YouTube Premium subscription so "creators can still get paid." Prior to these warnings, YouTube only showed popups to ad blocker users, reminding them that it's against the website's TOS. Eventually, it added a timer to the notices to ensure viewers take the time to read them.
The website has confirmed to BleepingComputer that the new alerts are part of an experiment. A spokesperson told the publication that YouTube is "running a small experiment globally that urges viewers with ad blockers enabled to allow ads on YouTube or try YouTube Premium." They said that YouTube might temporarily disable playback "[i]n extreme cases, where viewers continue their use of ad blockers." The spokesperson added that they will only disable playback "if viewers ignore repeated requests to allow ads on YouTube," though it's unclear if that means YouTube won't automatically block playback after a viewer watches three videos and will give them more opportunities to comply.
At the moment, this new approach only affects a small number of users, and YouTube didn't say how many people and regions are part of the test. The website, which makes most of its money from ads, has seen its ad revenue decline over the past three quarters, so we won't be surprised if this test expands to more users around the world should it turn out to be effective.
I’ve never understood why blockers “block” ads in a way detectable by the site. Just accept it as if you were going to show it, but throw it away.
I’ll have too quit watching some because they put a commercial nearly every five minutes. It shouldn’t be worse than network TV but some are.
Watch a video on Youtube is BS.Your watching at minimum of 5 Ads in a 10 minute video.
Youtube claims that watching their ads pays their video producers when in reality we know that Youtube defrauds these producers by cancelling their payments especially when they say something Youtube hates. Like Shouting that the Covide Vaccines is deadly.
I may watch video on Youtube but I’ll do my best to kill their ads because they’re wasting my bandwidth.
I’ve been getting that message, too, in the last few days.
Ill never pay for a subscription now.
Would not work for ads like YouTube’s, that interrupt the entire content stream, but it would be great for popups.
Maybe I should have patented that idea, before posting it.
I will stop the Ad-Blocker when YouTube stops selling my personal information. It is only fair.
I include the ads displayed in boxes in term popup
I pay $100 a month for every single packet of data that comes through my internet cable. Thats enough!
Cable TV was pay for no commercials-
Similar, to YT it will eventually be pay for ads as well-
besides GOOG’s entire business built on theft of our data and colluding with big tech.
Appeal to law and order is not convincing to me.
From my cold, dead hands.
Video has its uses. It is just another pathway into the brain for information. And like most things, video has a duality. One could use it to watch cat videos, but can also use it to watch the linked video below that describes the construction of an 18th century ship of the line.
This is a prime example:
How an 18th Century Sailing Battleship Works
I am reasonably well read on ship construction as the history of naval ship architecture has been a favorite subject of mine for some time.
But in all the books I have read, none of them were able to impart knowledge that I picked up in this one video linked to above. Sure, I knew all the terms, and have seen them to a greater or lesser degree in real life (such as going below decks in a ship like the USS Constitution or seeing the modern construction of smaller vessels) but seeing it visually, presented in 3D imparted knowledge that I could have never fully gained otherwise.
Also, as I have aged, I can no longer read as I once did, and the medical profession has been unable to help me. I simply cannot read more than 10 minutes at a stretch, and this has been a hardship for me. I have taken to audiobooks in the last 20 years, and just began dictating audiobooks last year (This thread introduces a book I have been working on for about a year (prompted and helped by our fellow FReeper ProgressingAmerica) New audiobook release: The Life and Times of Joseph Warren
I have thousands of audiobooks now, and I hoped that listening to enough of them would better enable me to make one that is engaging rather than one that people stop listening to due to the technique of the person dictating, but...I cannot tell for myself. I will have to wait to see what people think.
I know I have belabored the point, and I apologize for that, but I simply believe there is more than one way to get information into the human mind. I miss reading, and most other things are inferior to it, but...they have their place too, IMO.
I am using Brave and got the message today also.
On our not-so-smart Tee Vee, whenever we bring up yoo toob, the ads are inserted in the videos and have become insufferable.
yoo toob can go entertain itself.
She uses those?
Duckduckgo doesn’t have any of its own videos...it has a video search feature that finds videos from a variety of sources...primarily YouTube.
YouTube was better before Google bought it...as are most things prior to a larger company taking them over. PlutoTV was better prior to Viacom buying them out.
I just started seeing it today, in fact. However, I’ve watched more than three videos from YouTube today, as well.
Brave will be blocked in their plan.
I always move the article to Archive.ph and then read it for free.
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