RFLMAO... Too true. I have lotsa questions regarding ferrous or stainless alloy knives and what is more durable versus sharpenable etc. I would be hanging out there for sure. Blind tying fishing flies would be a amazing video...LoL.
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YouTube cracks down on ad blockers
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I rarely watch youtube on a computer, but rather via my Amazon Fire Sticks. I went on the free basis for quite a while, but ads (or trying to skip them on the time propmpt) got tedious so I subscribed. I'm so much happier now. In terms of value, beats hell out of Disney. YMMV.
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Re-engaged Ublock for Youtube, and ads are gone again. Will see if it lasts.
Yes, I subscribe too and I gotta say when they say ad free they mean ad free. I have had zero ads or messages.
Yep, totally gone. Especially nice for the music selections (where the ad would pop up in the middle of something). The ability to use a remote control is nice, too. Easier to pay attention to the content without ads for sure.
Did the same and gone for now. If the notices come back, I will revert to a strategy of watching many, many fewer YouTube videos. If they just had one ad at the beginning of the video, and I could opt out after a few seconds, OK. If I stuck out the ad until the end, they would learn what ads were palatable for me, and restrict their ads to that content which would be mutually beneficial. But since they want to be hard nosed about something that's been free for 20 years (and somehow financially viable), they can just go screw themselves.
Oh shoot! Just upgraded Chrome and it is pushing ads despite having ublock active! The video is blank but audio of the ad plays!!! 
bloodshoteyed
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as i've mentioned before...
just trying to return a small favor to Rossmann (you know, the right to repair guy) for all he did for us
I had some nagging about disabling my ad blocker on YT last week, to the point where it would not let me watch anything, but then it stopped, and I did not do anything different. I'm using Firefox with uBlock origin on Windows.
It seems like everyone 's experience is a little bit different though.
It seems like everyone 's experience is a little bit different though.
DonR
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I use the windows phone user-agent hack on chrome along with a small tampermonkey script to force youtube into desktop mode. Works a treat with Adblock, Ghostery and MalwareBytes blockers.
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lick my bit floor, utoob...
Then ad blockers are used, youtube videos are ad-supported videos no matter whether creators monetize them.
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nobody wants to $10 just to prevent ads
google wants more and more money as usual, but the users will always find a way to avoid their tactics
if anything all this shit do is make people less likely to buy their premium services all it does piss people off
google wants more and more money as usual, but the users will always find a way to avoid their tactics
if anything all this shit do is make people less likely to buy their premium services all it does piss people off
There's a pinned thread in the uBlock Origin subreddit that I followed and was able to get rid of the youtube notice about using an ad blocker. It looks like they update the thread regularly. They're pointing all questions about the issue to the pinned thread.
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Of course it is. Like Netflix warning about account sharing etc...
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