YouTube has been cracking down on people using ad blockers. Now, a spokesperson says that using ad blockers could lead to "suboptimal viewing."

YouTube warns it might make your viewing experience worse if you don’t turn off your ad-blocker::YouTube has been cracking down on people using ad blockers. Now, a spokesperson says that using ad blockers could lead to “suboptimal viewing.”

  • @mvirts@lemmy.worldEnglish
    21•2 years ago

    YouTube is just messing around. They could encode ads randomly on videos if they wanted to, like podcasts.

    • FartsWithAnAccentEnglish
      22•2 years ago

      There’s already a sponsor blocker extension that skips when a sponsor is even mentioned, it would be trivial to add other embedded ads to it.

      • n0xewEnglish
        2•2 years ago

        They would just be able to create and stream 2 or more ad-encoded versions where ads are encoded in differently positions. Then no sponsorblock could save us since it would skip the wrong segments for some people…

      • ArxCyberwolfEnglish
        1•2 years ago

        That’s not quite how it works. It’s crowdsourced, someone has to manually add every sponsored segment from a video into Sponsorblock. It can’t detect them on its own.