Why all of a sudden tech companies are not being favorable to their users?
YouTube disallowing adblockers, Reddit charging for API usage, Twitter blocking non-registered users. These events happen almost at the same time. Is this one of the effects of the tech bubble burst?
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When did YouTube disable adblockers? In the last 24 hours?
Well, its not exactly YouTube trying to block adblocker, rather Google in trying to disable the use of adblockers on chromium based browsers, with the reason being YouTube revenue from ads.
However, they announced this in late 2022 and I am not sure weather or not it actually was implemented (Firefox user).
Here is a link to a news article I found talking about this.
This is not what this is about, YouTube will be implementing a three-strikes policy if you are using ad blockers: https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/29/23778879/youtube-videos-disabling-ad-blockers-detection
Ok, ad blockers may have to move to downloading and bit-bucketing ads to make it appear to Youtube's servers that we have watched them. Worst case we may have to live with 30s pauses in videos.
Well would you look at that. I was not aware of this, thanks for letting me know!
They were testing things in the last few days.