I often see the sentiment that YouTube and adblockers will be forever locked in a cat-and-mouse game. However, for many years now, Twitch has entirely eliminated adblocking on desktop web.
What is stopping YouTube from replicating Twitch’s advertising strategy of embedding ads directly into their videos?
they’ll kill adblockers pretty quickly if they start banning gmail accounts for using them
So people will stop using Chrome? Holy shit, win win.
I think this is on their eventual roadmap, somewhere just after not allowing anyone to log in without a verified WEI check for “”““security””“”
Then you can stop all the YouTube rehosting sites like piped by baking in little 1 pixel changes that uniquely identify the account that ripped the video. Netflix and others will do this as well too try to stop piracy.
They’re going to go scorched earth on this, I just know it. The Internet will become as bad as cable was and this is the turning point.
what is a verified WEI check?
They’d have to force people to be logged in for this to be effective, but yeah, it’s definitely a possibility.
Give me one more reason to abandon my gmail account.