YouTube is testing a more aggressive approach against ad blockers
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Technology@kbin.social – 82 points – androidpolice.com
It looks like Google are pushing pretty hard on AdBlockers now. Looks like a pretty aggressive new UI from them.
I'm finding revanced for Android is still working well, but I've got no idea when that'll become less reliable
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Rather than doing this, they should work on the reasons WHY people are using adblockers. Some totally unrelated to ads, like those huge end-cards that block the video that you're still trying to watch. I use adblockers to remove those.
You used to be able to turn their predecessors off, but the new ones? I haven't found a way to turn them off without using ad-blockers. Even with Youtube Premium (which gets rid of the ads) I STILL have ot use U-block origin to get rid of those damned end-cards.
I thought that there was a setting to remove these info cards. I'm pretty sure I saw it a few months back when I was looking for a way to disable them.
They know why and don't care because it makes them money.
For me it's completely because of the tracking/privacy issues. If YouTube wants to serve ads that's fine by me, I just block tracking and as a result I never see an ad.