![]() ![]() If they wanted to watch commercial TV they had to put up with the ads between, and even during, the programmes they wanted to watchĪnd then video recording technology came along and we could record the programmes and simply skip over the ads. In the olden days (way back before the internets) users had no choice. It’s always been a game of cat and mouse between companies who want to try and sell us stuff that we don’t want, and us, who want to avoid watching the adverts trying to sell us the stuff that we don’t want The control of the browser was always meant to be in the user’s hands, not those of the owner of the sites he visits. ![]() Choosing to skip that content type is not disabling, circumventing, or interfering with the service, any more than leaving the room during commercials is interfering with the service provided by the TV channel. HTML, of course, stands for hypertext markup language, and the idea was that the site would mark up the various parts of the page (“this is a header, this is some text, this is a picture, this is a table,” etc.), and the browser would render (or not render) each type of content according to the user’s choices.Īds, of course, are just another type of content. I did not see any reference to ad blockers, or anything that could be honestly interpreted to cover ad blocking.Īn adblocking user has merely chosen not to have his browser download or render unwanted parts of the page. That page claims ad blocking is against the Youtube TOS, which is linked in the page cited. I installed the script, and it does work. This is about to get interesting, I think.ĮDIT: I have ViolentMonkey installed on Waterfox, and I went to YT, then clicked the ViolentMonkey button and selected “Find scripts for this site.” The very first entry was to remove the new Adblock not allowed screen. It is the invasive, massive, spyware-laden, sometimes malware-laden ads that have made adblockers a necessary self-defense tool, and no one has led the charge for that kind of ads more than Google. If they hadn’t broken web ads in the first place, they would not be facing this issue, at least not to the degree they do. They have already made it so harsh for content creators that they turn to Patreon and merch sales to make money, and now they’re driving away the viewers that use those rather than watch ads. I will never pay Google a dime, nor will I watch their ads, ever. I did see it with uBlock with more filters than those enabled, but you can click the X and get rid of it for now. As for uBlock Origin, apparently its author suggests disabling all of the filters other than the built-ins, which should get rid of the message.
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