YouTube's war on ad blockers continues, now making ads truly unskippable

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YouTube's war on ad blockers continues, now making ads truly unskippable

Post by Admin » Tue Jul 30, 2024 8:24 am

Ad-blocking users don't seem to see ads, but they can't skip them either.

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YouTube ad-blocker users, prepare to stare at nothing for anywhere from 6 to 30 seconds.
Multiple YouTube users are now reporting on social media that YouTube is serving them with blank ads or black screens before a video when they are using an ad-blocker extension. The black screens appear for the length of a typical YouTube pre-roll or ad insert before displaying the actual content of the video the viewer wants to watch.

In recent months, YouTube has made changes to stop users from skipping advertisements via third-party ad blocker extensions, which typically allow users to skip ads and jump right to the YouTube video content. Now, it appears that those ad-blocker users will...

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Re: YouTube's war on ad blockers continues, now making ads truly unskippable

Post by Admin » Wed Jul 31, 2024 6:38 am

A Google Chrome and Brave workaround that still works for now has been posted >>> Here!
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