YouTube mocks ad blockers with unexpected move

by times news cr

2024-07-31 00:29:23

YouTube maintains its war against the ad blockers for several months now, now with a new measure where it is making fun of users.

While YouTube hasn’t been able to really get rid of ad blockers, it is at least taking steps to make users desperate.

Hoping that they will give up their intentions to avoid the advertising that plays before and during videos that are in your platform.

Since this is the main source of income for both them and the content creators who upload their videos continuously.

What is YouTube’s new measure against ad blockers?

The new measure of YouTube It is a bit curious, since it does not invalidate the ad blockers as such.

However, YouTube also does not allow ad blockers to work efficiently.

YouTube warns about Adblock (Especial)

Well technically you can’t skip the ads, however, instead of watching the commercials, It gives you a black screen for several seconds.

This black screen takes the place of the ads, because lasts as long as a commercial and it won’t let you start the video until a certain amount of time has passed.

YouTube will soon implement more aggressive measures

This is not all that will be done YouTube to beat the ad blockersin fact, is already preparing more aggressive strategies, according to internal reports.

YouTube’s final measure against ad blockers would be to integrate the same advertising to the video, that is, that commercials are part of the content in itself.

This way, users would have to watch the advertisement; although they could fast forward the video, in the end the point is that the advertisement is played at least for a couple of seconds.

With this, it will not matter how effective the blocker is, since the commercial cannot be avoided as it is part of the content that you want to view on YouTube.

YouTube mocks ad blockers with unexpected move

YouTube (LIONEL BONAVENTURE / AFP)

2024-07-31 00:29:23

You may also like

Leave a Comment