I heard somewhere that a poll on Android Police regarding Vanced users followed Goggle's crackdown on Vanced. And it has been going downhill ever since.
I think people are used to seeing Ads on cable TV.
YouTube Ad Blocker Crackdown Is Ramping Up
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nRiTeCh
Northstar
There's a small amount population who wont mind seeing a ad or two and yeah this product thing as well is another factor and thats why the ads are in the first place, to attract at least one customer to try their products!
It working flawlessly today at least across videos and across extensions. May be yt was testing something yesterday and hence the issue but again it didn't affect my another browser and a different gmail account.
So, as per my guess, this soon might be a account restriction thing as well you never know.
For now just enjoy the show while it lasts. And then buy yt premium, its anyways light on pockets in a group share.
Yeah ig too much time is wasted in this hide and seek.
What? Embedded ads in downlaoded videos?
sabino
Beginner
Cant wait for two years later when youtube announces tiers to yt premium, where lower tiers members get ads anyways, just like netflix and prime are doing. In a world full of uncertainty, Enshittification is the one constant.
enthusiast29
Innovator
Inside news: It is in the roadmap.
As it should.
are you by any chance on chromium browsers? Manifest v3 just passed, try out firefox as well.
You never know. If YouTube embeds them, what will a downloader do? Download the ads as well.
We are not there yet, luckily.
nRiTeCh
Northstar
They may or may not. As mentioned earlier they need to maintain dual copies of their data. One for the paid subscriber while others for free audiences. But then there are technologies to inject ads based on subscription detection etc.
Also, not to forget, the extension devs. will simultaneously find a way a way to burst such plans unless they have to surrender just like how the original Magisk died!
FF only. Chrome and Edge are secondary for me.
Until someone finds a way, you could just fast forward. YT can't control your media player like they do their web player
Exactly. That's the reason I prefer download, even if I never want to watch that video again.
I'm getting more replies for what is NOT happening i.e. downloaded videos containing ads. It is a possibility, but I don't see any evidence of it yet.
If at all your adblocks aren't working, get a VPN and switch your country to Russia, North Korea, Myanmar, Swaziland, Cuba etc. Usually it works as these countries don't have any video monetization for various reasons.
Ads are fine, but watching an unskippable ad for a 3 min video is pretty shitty of YT. Fine, we have all watched too many ads on Dish/CableTV but these ads are pretty horrible. I have tried it on VMs with personalizations turned on & turned off.
Ads are fine, but watching an unskippable ad for a 3 min video is pretty shitty of YT. Fine, we have all watched too many ads on Dish/CableTV but these ads are pretty horrible. I have tried it on VMs with personalizations turned on & turned off.
Kaching999
Explorer
I myself have been using revanced for android and the brave browser and have not seen any ads on youtube whatsoever so I am all good for now.
They are piloting it and that is what got the entire discussion started. Right now, if you block the Javascript invoking the ads on the client side, you always get the video with the same duration and hence services like Sponsorblock and DeArrow work fine.
That will not be the case for server-side videos where ad locations and durations can be randomised on each playback, with the client being more of a dumb player.