Youtube is telling me daily that they'll soon disable my youtube because I have an ad blocker. Still waiting for it to actually happen.
this post was submitted on 06 Jun 2025
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I've been using Ublock origin for years and I've never seen a message like that
I don't even login so I don't know what they are going to disable.
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Or, and hear me out: just install a browser plugin and forget ads exist.
I hesitate to name extensions names, but I’ve literally never seen an ad on YouTube.
These companies don’t respect us, so I don’t feel the need to respect them by allowing them to force their meaningless bullshit down my throat.
I don’t use it that much, but you better believe if I go to YouTube to watch a video, that video is the only thing I’m watching.
Firefox + ublock origin + sponsorblock and I haven't seen an ad on youtube in all the years since I started that combo.
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I think I'm understanding the playbook here.
Eventually YouTube will cost 89.99 a month and also be full of ads.
Then they will be disrupted by some startup company that will have to fight uphill for search and bandwidth access through Google's monopolistic front door.
Years later a court case will be decided and the new guy will be up and running a free service with a few ads or 1.99 a month for no ads!
And then we get to go through it all again.
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get ublock or revanced
It's a sad state of affairs. I would pay for youtube in a heartbeat if it wasn't connected to the biggest spyware company in the world. But now, even while paying you still get ads and they still track you. The people working at Alphabet are bad and should feel bad.
Common People, Black Mirror Season 7
It feels insane to me that you're paying and you still get ads. I fucking refuse to do that
I tried watching a 30 minute video on YouTube the other day and it injected ads every 1 minute for the entire video. Fuck Google. Fuck YouTube. Fuck Alphabet.
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I'd love to see a transition to other platforms like Nebula. As users it would be nice to start choosing by principles too.
Premium Lite? What paid benefits are there to YouTube other than removing ads?
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