YouTube starts blocking 'Adblock Plus' which erases advertisements, causing chaos, Adblock Plus official also starts responding
When trying to watch a video on YouTube, many people were taken aback by a message that said, ``The use of ad blockers is not permitted under YouTube's terms of service.'' Adblock Plus, a standard ad blocker, has also been subject to YouTube's crackdown, and after receiving many inquiries from users, the Adblock Plus support team has provided information on future initiatives and countermeasures that users can take on their official blog. Did.
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YouTube started testing to prohibit the use of ad blockers around May 2023, and if a viewer watches three videos without turning off the ad blocker, the ad blocker will be blocked .
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This crackdown on ad blockers by YouTube has been widely implemented since October, and the bulletin board social news site Reddit has received a large number of posts complaining about YouTube's response. Some users are countering YouTube by turning off the warning display itself with ad blockers, or by introducing a Chrome extension that switches the user agent by taking advantage of Windows Phone being excluded. Currently, the only fundamental solution is to sign up for paid YouTube Premium, which removes ads from YouTube.
Regarding this issue, Adblock Plus said in a blog post on October 13, 2023, 'Anti-ad blockwalls have long been an issue for all ad blockers, not just us. 'We believe that content providers like these have the right to decide how users interact with their pages, but we also know that YouTube's anti-ad blockwall is particularly painful for many of our users.' said.
'Adblock Plus is useful for our users because it allows them to block ads on YouTube. While there is currently no solution that can be implemented, our team is committed to implementing this change. We are working hard to find out what we can do to prevent this from happening.We have not given up on the fight against anti-ad blocking.''He revealed that he is currently considering countermeasures.
According to Adblock Plus, if you see an 'anti-ad block wall' on YouTube, try the following methods.
- Keep the filter list up to date so that updates by the filter list creator are applied.
- If you can find what you want to delete, use the custom block rules feature.
-Use your browser's private browsing mode. In some cases, this can be avoided.
・Add YouTube to the allowed list. This will cause ads to be displayed on YouTube, but you will still be able to use Adblock Plus and continue watching on YouTube.
Adblock Plus has also set up an email list regarding this issue, and says it will send out information as soon as it knows how to deal with the issue.
Adblock Plus's official blog had 141 comments at the time of writing, including one that said, ``Displaying ads in a small window with no sound and fooling the site into thinking that the ad is being viewed.'' Posts suggesting ideas such as 'How about that?', posts advising users to use it in conjunction with extensions that block pop-ups, and 'The moment Google succeeds in permanently banning ad blockers from YouTube, I will 'I'm leaving forever and will never come back,' one post declared.
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