The Windows Phone user agent bypasses YouTube's annoying anti-ad-blocker pop-up.

Windows Phone gets revenge on YouTube from the grave by helping users bypass its ad-blocker-blocker::Windows Phone to the rescue. A lot of YouTube users want to know how to get around the new annoying YouTube pop-up telling viewers to disable their ad-blocker.

    • DrRatso@lemmy.mlEnglish
      213·
      1 year ago

      By what metric will they lose miserably? They do not care about you if you block their shit. This policy will do 3 things:

      • Make a miniscule amount of people who generate no revenue stop using the platform (basically noone).
      • Make existing adblockers slightly inconvenienced for a little bit (again, google doesnt actually give a shit)
      • Make some of the less tech savy people who block ads either whitelist or premium up (this will happen and is the intended outcome).

      Google only gains from this.

      • Clegko@lemmy.worldEnglish
        104·
        1 year ago

        I’ve been using YouTube Premium (née YouTube Red) for so long that I totally forgot that there are ads on YouTube and was surprised by all of this news popping off.

        • Thorny_Insight@lemm.eeEnglish
          8·
          1 year ago

          Same here except I’ve always used adblocker. The contrast between YouTube with adblock + sponsorblock compared to stock, cannot be overstated. The site literally becomes unuseable. It’s awful.

    • Number1SummerJam@lemmy.worldEnglish
      31·
      1 year ago

      The only reason I still use YouTube is to post to lemmy and download videos so I never have to use their crappy platform