Its Great To See Youtube Finally Put Their Foot Down!

[Garnier Fructis]

That model was replaced a couple of years ago. Now money is generated by banners which do not require clicking the ad. Only a stupid uses Google ad word. So yeah you are essentially depriving websites from their money when using adblock

I see.

Oh well, tough beans, fuck ads.

[lonely zergling]

Why would anyone want to download shitty youtube compressed videos anyway ?

[Bollocks]

I suppose that's why people are prosecuted left and right for using AdBlock.

I'm not saying it's illegal. But you are certainly depriving website owners from ad revenue, having already used their service ( the content in the website). Imagine a content strike claim on a youtuber and that is pretty much adblock

[Tinykong]

Good luck preventing people from recording the audio/video on their screen. All this is going to do is punish offline people, and do nothing to prevent piracy.

[Deleted]

Why would anyone want to download shitty youtube compressed videos anyway ?

People who upload videos to youtube rarely include a download link to the original video in the description.

[Feel The Power]

Websites can't detect whether there's a browser addon installed in your browser.

I go to websites all the time that detect I am using adblock, you are very wrong about that.

[kamuimac]

I believe using adblock makes you a thief (a scumbag at a minimum) as well because your browser isnt displaying those ads which means the website isnt making money from you. IF everyone used adblock, the internet would likely either go away ot you would have to pay a monthly subscription to every site

oh wow this is pure gold you just made my day

[zenkai]

Good luck trying to kill off all sites that offer a specific service. That's worked so amazingly before.



Websites can't detect whether there's a browser addon installed in your browser. They can't "block" anyone using AdBlock. What they can do is wrap content inside an ad, which then means the content won't load since the ad is blocked. However, all you need to do then is change the filter a bit, and possibly allow that one blocked element.

actually they can, because the content isn't loading. Hell my companies web site can tell were peoples mouses are on the screen, it's use to see how customers browse the web page to help improve it.

[Tziva]

Now, if only YouTube could get their shit together with all the false DMCA-claims you hear about.

Coming very soon, actually!

[EnclosedOne]

The problem is that sites don't give a shit about the people browsing and don't care if their machines get all sorts of virus' and shit from the ads so it's up to us users to protect our own machines and one way of doing that is to simply block all ads because we don't know which ones are virulent so its best just not to take a chance with any ads at all. If these sites want people to disable their adblock then they need to start policing their damn ads and assuring people that their machines won't get infected by some possibly nasty shit but since its very obviously that they don't want to take responsibility for their content/ads then there is no chance I will disable my adblock, ever.

Also for these sites now trying to block users who use ablock there is a script for tampermonkey that bypasses this shit too

[Bollocks]

The problem is that sites don't give a shit about the people browsing and don't care if their machines get all sorts of virus' and shit from the ads so it's up to us users to protect our own machines and one way of doing that is to simply block all ads because we don't know which ones are virulent so its best just not to take a chance with any ads at all. If these sites want people to disable their adblock then they need to start policing their damn ads and assuring people that their machines won't get infected by some possibly nasty shit but since its very obviously that they don't want to take responsibility for their content/ads then there is no chance I will disable my adblock, ever.

Also for these sites now trying to block users who use ablock there is a script for tampermonkey that bypasses this shit too

You are only getting viruses if you visit websites of dubious precedence. Mainly porn and piracy websites, major websites and even medium sized onews often do not contain viruses and at most you'll only need an anti virus, which you should get either way.

Look if you don't like ads that's okay, no one's going to judge just don't pretend there are moral justifications to your actions.

[Powerogue]

Adblock.

I forgot youtube even had ads.

Come on, at least turn that off for channels you like.

Specifically I turn it on for channels I hate. Ad revenue makes the world go 'round. (Though if they try to give me one of those BS 2 minute unskippables, yeah I turn adblock back on for that video, but that's very rare)

Coming very soon, actually!

I certainly hope they're solving the DMCA false claim outbreak. It's effected nearly every channel I watch! There's nothing fun about every other week your channel has to wrestle with legal BS.

[Koji2k11]

im not sure if op is serious or not about his adblock statement

[ComputerNerd]

Unless they can change the means by which they do it, then nothing will change.
There are many tools already offering that feature, some commercial even.
And what would their approach be it one were put up as open source ?

I have used a similar tool infrequently for when it is either more convenient to have a video offline, or when I want to view it on another device less suited or even incapable.

Come on, at least turn that off for channels you like.

Specifically I turn it on for channels I hate. Ad revenue makes the world go 'round. (Though if they try to give me one of those BS 2 minute unskippables, yeah I turn adblock back on for that video, but that's very rare)



I certainly hope they're solving the DMCA false claim outbreak. It's effected nearly every channel I watch! There's nothing fun about every other week your channel has to wrestle with legal BS.

I will turn off adblock when a site doesn't have intrusive, annoying and generally detrimental advertising and unwanted tracking.
Popups over a video I am watching is simply not acceptable, auto-playing audio or video ads are not.
That doesn't seem likely either since there is this refusal to believe that people use adblocking for any reason other than "denying income".
This constant ignorant threat of putting content behind a paywall instead of making the ad experience better.

[Jotaux]

You are only getting viruses if you visit websites of dubious precedence. Mainly porn and piracy websites, major websites and even medium sized onews often do not contain viruses and at most you'll only need an anti virus, which you should get either way.

Look if you don't like ads that's okay, no one's going to judge just don't pretend there are moral justifications to your actions.

Within an hour of disabling adblock, users were getting malware from Forbes.

http://www.networkworld.com/article/...tisements.html

[Bapestar]

The only reason I use youtube downloaders, is because some songs can't be found on itunes/spotify, etc.

[Self Inflicted Wounds]

I believe using adblock makes you a thief (a scumbag at a minimum) as well because your browser isnt displaying those ads which means the website isnt making money from you. IF everyone used adblock, the internet would likely either go away ot you would have to pay a monthly subscription to every site

As soon as web hosting sites (Like Youtube, MMO-C) start using honest means of using ads, Adblock and the like will flourish.

[Testaxc]

If you think attacking sites will stop this you have a lot to learn. People can rip video streams as it plays through command line if they know what they're doing. At that point you would have to restrict the literal output of your incoming data lol.

[Dug]

Coming very soon, actually!

Is that related to the h3h3productions thing or is their issue something entirely different?

[Zan15]

i am confused how is this not legal under fair use?

you are watching a video....you record video like you do on a vcr/tivo/etc....you watch it again later.

how is that not fair use?