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.