YouTube's war with ad blockers is far from over, and it's focusing on tools that enable ad-free viewing on mobile this time. The Google-owned video platform has announced that it's "strengthening [its] enforcement on third-party apps that violate" its Terms of Service, "specifically ad-blocking apps." It's talking about mobile applications you can use to access videos without being interrupted by advertisements. When you use an application like that, you may experience buffering issues or see an...
Users accessing videos via third-party ad-blocking apps will face buffering issues or be unable to view the videos entirely, YouTube said.
One of the internet’s simple pleasures is watching YouTube with an ad blocker. You can watch as many videos as you want without constant interruptions from obnoxiously, occasionally unskippable commercials. But ads are how YouTube makes its money, so they’re not too happy when people use ad blockers to get avoid them.
There are multiple ways to download YouTube videos directly on your iPhone. YouTube would prefer if you chose one of these methods over the other, but the other two are free.
YouTube (via Google) has again reiterated that it will not condone the use of third-party ad-blockers on the site.
YouTube users who use ad blockers to avoid advertising on the platform will now see alerts or experience buffering issues.
AI-powered virtual influencers will be able to compete with real human influencers for profitable advertising deals on TikTok.
YouTube is blocking third-party apps with ad blockers from streaming videos. The change follows other crackdowns on ad blockers on YouTube's part.
YouTube is expanding its crackdown of ad-blockers by making blocking certain third-party apps.
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In a support document, Google said that users attempting to access YouTube videos through third-party apps with built-in ad-blocking could experience buffering issues or see an error that reads "The following content is not available on this app."Read Entire Article
Last year, YouTube launched a full-on assault against ad blockers in October, following an initial small scale experiment in June. Now, many months later, the crackdown is expanding. YouTube has announced that it will be commencing enforcement of its anti-ad blocker policy on third-party apps that violate YouTube's Terms of Service. YouTube specifically calls out "ad-blocking apps", on this occasion, although we assume third-party players with ad blocking built-in could also be a target. As...