For us who use ad blockers on our Chrome, Edge, Firefox, or Mac browsers

[kalvado]

What is the desired endgame here?

Death to capitalism.

Beware of what you ask for, you may get it.

[GaryV]

a few of my videos hit big last year and the additional amount I would have made off that if not for adblockers could have bought me a round-trip flight

Including $78 for TSA? 

(Sorry, wrong thread)

[hbelkins]

Creators are free to move to TikTok. Do they have any payout programs, btw?

TikTok is not suitable for the long-form videos that make up most of YouTube.

TwiXtter, perhaps?

[Bruce]

YouTube still is the best widespread video platform, for all its faults. Especially for those of us who prefer to watch videos in landscape as they should be.

I did get the popups a few times but did the simple purge-and-refresh of the filters in uBlock and it seems to have fixed everything. Still looking into using a PiHole as a long-term solution, though.

[Rothman]

A VPN seems to work to get around the adblock ban...just have to choose the right country...

Also wonder about fadblock and if it's reliable or safe.

[Molandfreak]

I'm able to exit out of the message telling me that ad blockers are no longer allowed and watch videos normally. It's an extra step, but it works.

[Rothman]

I'm able to exit out of the message telling me that ad blockers are no longer allowed and watch videos normally. It's an extra step, but it works.

It'll switch over to a message that you can watch three videos until they disable the player.

[1995hoo]

I'm noticing a new trend among some news websites of posting a message demanding that you either subscribe or disable your adblocker, with no easy apparent way to get rid of the message other than complying. I know they're businesses, they need to make money, and advertising is a part of that, but until they come up with ways to advertise that don't involve pop-up ads or forcing you to tolerate unwanted video advertising, I'll stick with the adblockers.

[Molandfreak]

I'm noticing a new trend among some news websites of posting a message demanding that you either subscribe or disable your adblocker, with no easy apparent way to get rid of the message other than complying. I know they're businesses, they need to make money, and advertising is a part of that, but until they come up with ways to advertise that don't involve pop-up ads or forcing you to tolerate unwanted video advertising, I'll stick with the adblockers.

That's better than the subscription-only model almost every paper under the sun has been adopting. Sorry, but I have enough on my plate managing streaming service subscriptions. No way I want to add 10 newspaper subscriptions to that repertoire. If you're a major publisher in a top-50 metro area, you should have no problem getting companies to pay you top dollar to run ads on your content.

[kalvado]

I'm noticing a new trend among some news websites of posting a message demanding that you either subscribe or disable your adblocker, with no easy apparent way to get rid of the message other than complying. I know they're businesses, they need to make money, and advertising is a part of that, but until they come up with ways to advertise that don't involve pop-up ads or forcing you to tolerate unwanted video advertising, I'll stick with the adblockers.

That's better than the subscription-only model almost every paper under the sun has been adopting. Sorry, but I have enough on my plate managing streaming service subscriptions. No way I want to add 10 newspaper subscriptions to that repertoire. If you're a major publisher in a top-50 metro area, you should have no problem getting companies to pay you top dollar to run ads on your content.

Ad market seem to have more supply of ad space than demand from advertisers.

[GaryV]

I'm noticing a new trend among some news websites of posting a message demanding that you either subscribe or disable your adblocker, with no easy apparent way to get rid of the message other than complying. I know they're businesses, they need to make money, and advertising is a part of that, but until they come up with ways to advertise that don't involve pop-up ads or forcing you to tolerate unwanted video advertising, I'll stick with the adblockers.

That's better than the subscription-only model almost every paper under the sun has been adopting. Sorry, but I have enough on my plate managing streaming service subscriptions. No way I want to add 10 newspaper subscriptions to that repertoire. If you're a major publisher in a top-50 metro area, you should have no problem getting companies to pay you top dollar to run ads on your content.

Ad market seem to have more supply of ad space than demand from advertisers.

Maybe because the advertisers know how many ad blockers there are, and it's not a good investment of their marketing budget.

[kalvado]

I'm noticing a new trend among some news websites of posting a message demanding that you either subscribe or disable your adblocker, with no easy apparent way to get rid of the message other than complying. I know they're businesses, they need to make money, and advertising is a part of that, but until they come up with ways to advertise that don't involve pop-up ads or forcing you to tolerate unwanted video advertising, I'll stick with the adblockers.

That's better than the subscription-only model almost every paper under the sun has been adopting. Sorry, but I have enough on my plate managing streaming service subscriptions. No way I want to add 10 newspaper subscriptions to that repertoire. If you're a major publisher in a top-50 metro area, you should have no problem getting companies to pay you top dollar to run ads on your content.

Ad market seem to have more supply of ad space than demand from advertisers.

Maybe because the advertisers know how many ad blockers there are, and it's not a good investment of their marketing budget.

There are only that many things to be bought with money on hand, and people are growing immune to ads in general.
total ad market may be what, 1% of disposable income, if not less? It's not a small amount - but there are plenty of takers . Online, TV, newspapers, external ads... 

[Scott5114]

I'm noticing a new trend among some news websites of posting a message demanding that you either subscribe or disable your adblocker, with no easy apparent way to get rid of the message other than complying. I know they're businesses, they need to make money, and advertising is a part of that, but until they come up with ways to advertise that don't involve pop-up ads or forcing you to tolerate unwanted video advertising, I'll stick with the adblockers.

Turning off JavaScript tends to work on those sites. Unless they load massive swaths of the content with JavaScript, in which case you can safely assume that the site is run by people with poor taste who lack common sense, meaning that you probably shouldn't care much about what they want to tell you anyway.

[mgk920]

Maybe if the advertisers start creating ads that don't make us WANT to use ad-blockers in the first place . . .



Mike

[kalvado]

Maybe if the advertisers start creating ads that don't make us WANT to use ad-blockers in the first place . . .



Mike

Unfortunately, that's the race to the bottom. Hard to explain people that ultimate outcome is negative for them. And the main target is older or less tech  people, who just need to be confused into doing stupid stuff, so confusing and misleading is the name of the game.
I really tried to give some web sites a chance over the years, very rarely other side ends up playing nice... and no second chance, once exception is removed there is no reason to  bring it back....

[Big John]

I just played a TouTube video and they had an ad to the side for an ad blocker.

[HighwayStar]

I'm able to exit out of the message telling me that ad blockers are no longer allowed and watch videos normally. It's an extra step, but it works.

It'll switch over to a message that you can watch three videos until they disable the player.

They keep changing what happens. Today YouTube was showing a "You're offline" error to me even when I was online and every other site worked including YouTube up to the point where you wanted to watch a video.

So now they are using fake error messages as well.

[Molandfreak]

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/fadblock-friendly-adblock/mdadjjfmjhfcibgfhfjbaiiljpllkbfc

Get it before they start cracking down!

[Brandon]

Firefox with AdBlock and DuckDuckGo's ad blocker here, and so far, I've avoided ads on YouTube while being able to watch videos and having no issues doing so.

[Billy F 1988]

I was fed up with Chrome bugging me to update the stupid thing every time. So, I swapped over to Edge and have, not one, not two, but THREE blockers running on my Edge browser and no issue of YouTube slapping that "ad blockers are not allowed" error screen so far.

[Scott5114]

"I got tired of Chrome so I switched to Edge" carries the same energy as "After the government bought out my house in Love Canal, I used the money to buy a place in a nice little town called Pripyat".

[Billy F 1988]

Not sure how switching from Chrome to Edge and not encountering the same "Ad blockers not allowed" roadblock translates to trading a house in Love Canal for a geno-mutated Pripyat. At least my OS allows me to delay updates for Edge up to 35 days! Something Chrome doesn't do.

[Scott5114]

Edge is Chrome with the serial numbers filed off. You're just choosing to have Microsoft steal your data instead of Google.

The only safe browser is Firefox.

[kalvado]

Not sure how switching from Chrome to Edge and not encountering the same "Ad blockers not allowed" roadblock translates to trading a house in Love Canal for a geno-mutated Pripyat. At least my OS allows me to delay updates for Edge up to 35 days! Something Chrome doesn't do.

Is that how Fedora deals with that?

[Scott5114]

Is that how Fedora deals with that?

Fedora only updates when you type sudo dnf update and enter your password. If you want to configure it to auto-fire that command, you can, but you're responsible for deciding the update schedule. Likewise, if a reboot is required to apply some update, you're responsible for deciding when to reboot.