Turning on adblock on youtube, would result your account of being banned

[Drayton]

You might just turn off/uninstall any adblock extensions or stop using adblocking browser while you're watching videos

Well you cant avoid unskippeable ads anymore *ahem*

Article: https://www.gizchina.com/2019/11/11/watch-out-youtube-could-ban-your-account-if-you-block-ads/

^{This takes effect on f December as now, no worries.}

 

[mgriffin]

Also relevant (a denial of the premise of the article above): https://twitter.com/TeamYouTube/status/1193988444873060352.

 

[Tsutarja]

Nowhere in the article does it cite that YouTube is specifically targeting adblock extensions at all. Until YouTube releases another statement clarifying this is what they meant, then I won't believe any of this.

 

[Fleurdelis]

I find this very hard to believe. Not only do I have no sign of this supposed policy change, the whole article in general feels vague.

 

[starseed galaxy auticorn]

I hope they don't do this. It'd really affect me a lot because I use Adblocker due to my ADHD and such. D: Plus, YT has a tendency to inject ads every time you turn around and such. I highly doubt they are going to do this. Not only would it upset many of their watchers, but it would also cause them to lose them.

 

[Palamon]

Yeah, pretty sure 75% of people will just watch youtube logged out then if this is the case.

 

[Simply Dunsparce]

This entire year has just been YouTube treating both its creators and its viewers as merely a way to gain a revenue. The fact that there has been that there has been so much backlash over YouTube in just the past year alone that the question/phrase "how will YouTube fuck with people this month?" has been been consistently asked is actually alarming, especially now that the FTC is going to start making everything that they deem "for kids" (which will be based solely of first impressions based of a set of nearly 30 year old guidelines that don't even both to judge the individual intellectual properties on their own merits but instead on the judgement of so ill-informed FTC agents and an infamously volatile algorithm.) YouTube, just please stop before you start ruining a substantial amount of people's lives and careers or result in your site's eventual undoing (although at this rate it seems fairly bleak.)

 

[polymorphism]

I'm sure the hivebrain of the internet will come together and solve the issue in 0.12 seconds if it ever became official anyway. That or someone else would come in and take over *cough*pornhub*cough*

 

[Corrin]

There would literally be a google chrome extension to circumvent in like a day, or something on userstyles idk.

 

[Fairy]

I doubt they'll be targeting what they know is a majority of their own userbase. That in itself is more "commercially non-viable". Youtube wants to keep your accounts around for as long as possible because even with an adblocker, you're still consuming the content.

Besides, Youtube has historically been absent in terminating accounts for some of the platform's most incendiary and notorious users. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯