Did YouTube finally kill adblocking apps like SmartTube? - Tons of unusual 403 / forbidden errors

[The Feline Solution]

And people wonder why I pirate absolutely everything

Same. I think it was Gabe Newell who said something along the line of if piracy in comparison is more convenient and is giving a better end user experience than your product/platform then your product/platform is shit.
Tangentially related, i recently got a free week of Amazon Prime and saw that they put ads in their more popular shows and films, it's ridiculous.

 

[LinkinParkxNaruto[AMV]]

Imagine even considering paying for youtube.

 

[WULULULULU]

Same. I think it was Gabe Newell who said something along the line of if piracy in comparison is more convenient and is giving a better end user experience than your product/platform then your product/platform is shit.
Tangentially related, i recently got a free week of Amazon Prime and saw that they put ads in their more popular shows and films, it's ridiculous.

It was Gabe. This reasoning is why he was very willing to improve Steam so that more would be incentivized to use it. Something that both Epic and Google fail to realize from time to time.

 

[Fred Herbert]

People who are retarded enough to pay for YouTube premium should be sterilised.

I’m honestly shocked it even took off. Seemed a dead on arrival “feature” by any logical examination. Why pay for something you can do extremely easily for free?

 

[Sperglord666]

Revanced Youtube for android and Brave are still working on my end.

 

[BPD Gunt Rider]

Inability to block ads would be the end of Youtube for me, outside of yt-dlp for the rare thing I really want to watch.

Youtube ads used to be tolerable, like a short skippable ad in a video unless the creator greedily spammed more in there. But now Youtube fills every video with ads to the point it's very annoying.

As we all knew, it was just a matter of time before web streaming became greedy Jew ad shit like television.

 

[Burd Turglar]

Total Advertiser Death.

 

[gildersleeve]

I use the YT api's for Kodi on the HDCRT in my bedroom.. I'll have to check and see if that's been affected. As it doesn't allow ads. I'll be pissed if it's dead. I refuse to have a Google device plugged in. Oh well, if it's gone then ch99 is all that'll be streaming on it forever then.

 

[TiggerNits]

Brave continues to block ads without issue on desktop and mobile

 

[Quandale Octavius Dingle]

My opinion isn't in the poll, SAD! I'll continue to leech off of YouTube and Twitch just out of pure spite. Even if they start injecting ads into the HLS playlist and the best blockers can do is insert a white screen like TwitchMod does with their bitstream ads, I would rather stare at a blank screen for five minutes straight than see the latest ad of buck broken niggas in a dress twerking for Faucci in the latest Pfizer advert saying to get gigavaxxed for pride.
My biggest worry is the implications bitstream ad injection has on download and archival tools like YT-DLP.
Though I'm not a dev my thought would be that if decoders/players are able to identify ads then the timestamps could be parsed through FFMPEG to be muxed out of the final output. Then if it's able to do that it could be further piped into an external player like MPV or VLC to be enjoyed without interruption.

 

[AGoodBrazilian]

There is absolute no way that a Revanced/SmartTube/NewPipe/Ublock/Brave user would buy some shit after seeing and Ad. It's funny to think the even Youtube know that his ads is punishment enough to Apple Fags to pay for Youtube Premium.

 

[Fred Herbert]

As we all knew, it was just a matter of time before web streaming became greedy Jew ad shit like television.

I had the intense misfortune of experiencing YouTube without adblocker in current year thanks to a recent Brave glitch. It's worse than TV. TV you get ads at regular intervals and it cuts to them. For actual products & services and stuff. YouTube just stop the video mid sentence to have some retard scream into the camera about some actual legit predatory scam every 30 seconds. Sometimes the ads are longer than the video itself and it can have 2-3 of them all unskippable. You got the scams on TV of course but that is a much more regulated market.

It's particularly entertaining because this platform grew in part because of how annoying, obnoxious and odious TV advertising was. Funny how the pendulum swings.

 

[Kankichi Ryotsu]

If adblock doesn't work I'll stop using YouTube. The amount of ads is fucking unbearable and they're always the same few.

 

[Mr. Manchester]

It's nice to think that google is spending a fuck ton of money to develop anti-adblock stuff only to have it fail time and time again. At this point I'll do whatever it takes to not give them a dime and continue watching shit for free if only to fuck them.

 

[THE STRESS]

It amazes me how far YouTube has strayed from its original incarnation over the years. What was once a quaint video uploading site is now basically neo-TV where instead of people making content for hungry eyes to view, now it effectively became the new "rock star" career path. The ads are a byproduct of not just corporate greed, but also creator greed.
There's also the idea of hard-baking ads into the video stream that doesn't sit well either. A huge use to YouTube is short tutorials and videos that aren't the length of tv shows. In regards to the former, they already took away the ability to view dislikes (without a plugin) so now there could be wasted time clicking on a video that talks about the wrong issue or is completely wrong, AND more wasted time because you had to sit through a minute long ad break in the beginning.
I guess my question here, with all this being said, youtube was the primary choice for people over the years due to accessibility and choice. Is this enough for people to find that alternative they've been trying to create for years? Sure there were people trying to jump ship even 14 years ago, but back then, it was more in relation to TOS or shitty (albeit not as shitty) business practices. Even then, as trivial as those changes were, to my recollection, they were never this intrusive. Personally, I think a notable amount of people will leave over this. TYTD

 

[Osama Bin Laden]

YouTube is fighting a losing war against ad blockers. The amount of extra money they would make is not worth the effort. Ad block users are a minority on YouTube.

i hope google pisses away BILLIONS of dollars trying to stop ad block only to get cucked in the end. I've hated youtube since the entire adpocalypse. bravechuds are winning

 

[High Level Rad Waste]

Adblocking wasn't an issue when all youtube did was put a skippable ad at the beginning of the video. It was the worse-than-cable ad shit that made me get adnauseum for PC and newpipe for the phone.

 

[Pargon]

It was Gabe. This reasoning is why he was very willing to improve Steam so that more would be incentivized to use it. Something that both Epic and Google fail to realize from time to time.

Related, here is your obligatory reminder that media theft is morally and ethically correct 100% of the time with no exceptions.

 

[Gergg]

I'm in the same camp as alot of people who have simply had enough. It is actually in an advertiser's best interest that I don't see their ad. I have a blacklist of companies that I will never consider. I will actively seek their competition or some mom and pop that is comparable. (If you have millions and billions of dollars to scream in my ear, multiple times per hour, about how great your new ballshaver or whatever is, you don't need my money)

That Said if you are an android user looking for a mobile solution. "Adblock Browser" app has never let me down. No idea if it exists on apple's market.

I also use "Adguard" for my main pcs that seems to have killed everything, its a paid for service, only got it because nothing else was working for a week or two during the initial anti-adblock war started up again but I'd give my money to any company fighting against advertisers 1000 times over before I would watch an ad willingly.

As I see it, if my viewing an ad has value to companies, and I am not being compensated for the time I am watching their shit, they are stealing from me. (I don't care if its $0.00001 cents a view, pay me or get your ad off my FUCKING screen)

ETA: Sponsorblock is a godsend and if you don't have it, you need it. Skips all the stupid in-video ad segments for "gay faggot legends" and such

 

[Pargon]

As I see it, if my viewing an ad has value to companies, and I am not being compensated for the time I am watching their shit, they are stealing from me. (I don't care if its $0.00001 cents a view, pay me or get your ad off my FUCKING screen)

That used to actually be a thing, at least in the US. I was unemployed for a number of months during the 2008 crash and getting gift cards for watching internet ads helped keep me fed.

We had all those services by the balls back then and bit by bit we loosened our grip and at this point the public is cowering in a corner whimpering “Please don’t hurt me” because normies don’t know how genuinely piss easy it is to just stop that shit from getting forced into your eyes and ears. Last month I configured Pi-hole, including assembling a Pi to actually provide the DNS, with fuck-all electronics or programming experience. Hardly sysadmin shit or anything but it was the most fun I’ve had in a long time, researching, troubleshooting, learning how to tweak things. I learned shit about networks and all I was trying to do was something that improves my everyday life.

And it was easy as piss. If you have a few hours and can use a search engine and read English any tard can do it but tech still intimidates a lot of the people these predatory policies most benefit from, so they won’t look, they won’t just ask Bing “how tf do I stop this nonsense”.

It will very soon be everyone’s moral duty to fuck advertisers and marketers sloppy style every chance they get, if it isn’t already.