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So let me get this straight, if I stay on the "free" youtube with my adblocker, I can continue to see all videos ad-free? Or only the non-red ones?
by krisdol 11y ago
So let me get this straight, if I stay on the "free" youtube with my adblocker, I can continue to see all videos ad-free? Or only the non-red ones?
- Balgair 11y agoI am wondering about this as well. What is going to happen to my favorite small channels? There are a lot of them with very few, but dedicated fan bases. Can I still watch those with having to fork over 10$/month?
- oh_sigh 11y agoYes, of course. It is up to the channel, not the average user, to decide whether to accept red money or not. If that channel decides to not take the red money, then their videos will essentially be hidden - you can still find them, but you have to go directly to their page and not through search or something.
- seanalltogether 11y agoI've been wondering when the day would come that youtube simply interleaves ad content into the videos and bypasses adblock. Perhaps they haven't done it in the past to avoid user backlash. Now they can simply say "upgrade to red to get back to an ad free experience".
- anilgulecha 11y agoIMO You underestimate the tiny amount of effort to the large payoff with adblocking.. What will come along is an adblocker which skips around the ad parts of the video automatically.
- eva1984 11y agoRemember Youtube's object is not to get rid of ALL ad-blockers, it is make the use of ad-blockers really uncomfortable for the MAJORITY of the internet users.
- bryanrasmussen 11y agoI'm assuming the ad is seamlessly part of the video - probably there will always be some way to determine that there is an ad but also there would end up being an arms-race about it so I would expect it would prohibitively expensive for ad-blockers to block ads that are just part of the video being streamed.