Google has begun testing a more aggressive approach to users trying to watch videos on the YouTube video platform with ad blockers and without a paid
Google has begun testing a more aggressive approach to users trying to watch videos on the YouTube video platform with ad blockers and without a paid
Advertising companies gunna advertise, hell or high water. Sometimes it’s easy to forget, but all the major players in tech are just advertising companies. I use a pihole running in my network to deep six all advertising traffic in a way that the website doesn’t know it’s happening.
However, I subscribe to youtube premium for access to youtube music (it’s positively amazing if you love newly released EDM), and as a happy perk, no advertising videos for me.
I subscribed back when it was Google Music + Youtube RED as a perk. Worth it to me to nix Youtube ads and listen to music all day (also without ads). There will always be a contingent of people that will spend an inordinate amount of time trying to make ad-supported stuff not have ads, but in the case of music and YT videos, pay up or watch the ads. If there was a reasonably priced option to subscribe to more than a single newspaper service, I’d be paying for that instead of doing the javascript disablement dance.
I gave Youtube music a try but my god, both the shuffle AND loop playlist option (when using playlists) sometimes just doesn’t work on desktop and it has not been fixed for some time… I stopped using spotify because of the bugs but this is somehow even worse
Oh man, how long was that? Can you describe the issue as it happened to you? I’m interested to see if it’s still a probelm.