The latest YouTube error message isn’t a bug, it’s another ad blocker crackdown

https://www.techspot.com/news/111074-latest-youtube-error-message-isnt-bug-another-ad.html

34 Comments

  1. With duckduckgo as my default browser, I don’t have a problem watching no ad videos.

    Yet.

  2. Guys, it’s over. Just get premium lite, its $8. Why put up with the abuse? Out of principle?

    Life is too short to deal with ads, or ways to circumvent them.

  3. Been noticing this myself for a week or so now. I don’t get an error but the page just never loads. Sometimes refreshing or accessing the mainpage from a search link seems to allow me through.

  4. So an ad blocker will break youtube? Perfect! 

    Now I can get rid of that crap, thanks google. 

  5. So now I am forced to ditch Chrome where YouTube don’t work and use Firefox instead. Genius, Google.

  6. Juliuscesear1990 on

    I like how I’m a premium subscriber and I’m logged in on Chrome, yet when I click a video on my browser it opens in Chrome and there is an ad. I have to click go to YouTube to actually utilize my premium.

  7. Id like youtube. I dont mind watching ads, I want it to be profitable and continue to exist. I watch on my phone since its easier to switch videos on mobile when Im gaming. But they have no fucking quality control. If I get another 10+ minute ad ill just install a web browser with ad blocker on my phone and watch there.

  8. For Safari users here (don’t judge, i like it on my ipad) vinegar works wonders too. And lets you listen to videos without the screen on.

  9. Funny… As a Firefox+ Unlock origin user I have never seen any of these “error messages”.

  10. I whitelisted YouTube, but it still thinks I’m blocking ads because I have the extension installed, even though I’m not using it. I’m not about to get ads from every website just because YouTube doesn’t want me to use an ad blocker.

  11. DopamineSavant on

    I’m never going to watch ads on YouTube. I’ll research how to get around any counter measure they add.

  12. YouTube isn’t worth a shit anymore, anyway…

    Haven’t visited that site in years.

    Fuck Alphabet, Meta, Amazon, Nvidia, Microslop, et. al…

    Satire incoming…

    I wonder how they’ll continue to make profits when the AI circle jerk has eliminated the jobs of the majority of tax playing humans… Where do these fart sniffing oligarchs see this trend going?

    I wonder if robots like endless bullshit ads… will they even watch YouTube?

  13. Goes without saying that people that use adblockers have absolutely no interest in seeing ads and if by some measure that ad finds its way back in their face the absolute last thing they will do is buy the product or service. Literally throwing money away by serving ads to people who are not interested.

  14. AviationGeekTom_330 on

    then why is it saying “this content isn’t available” and not “please disable your vpn”

  15. W8kingNightmare on

    I don’t understand pay to avoid the ads or watch the ads, its the only reason why there is YouTube

  16. _MyCatsNameIsBinx on

    How many things have I ever bought from a YouTube ad over my entire life? Zero. Because I hate the company and their product for interrupting my video.

  17. Basically, we just need everyone on the internet to stop watching Youtube. Their monetization is zero without watchers. And they are making watchers less safe.