• YouTube is intensifying efforts to combat adblockers, including blocking video playback and warning users of potential account suspension.
  • Increased ads on YouTube have driven many users to adblockers, hurting both YouTube’s ad revenue and content creators reliant on ad-based income.
  • Despite these measures, many users are leaving YouTube or finding workarounds, leading creators to seek alternative revenue streams off-platform.
  • fxdave@lemmy.ml
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    3 months ago

    If they want to fight hard, they just add the ads into the stream.

    • Mataresian@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      3 months ago

      Like Twitch you mean? I think that has been blocked as well. And other addblockers can even skip adds within yt videos