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An experiment that could become permanent:
YouTube's annoying ads often push those who don't want to pay $120 for YouTube Premium to use ad blockers. But Google isn't happy about this potentially lost revenue, and has decided to experiment with a feature that urges ad-blocker users to think again.
Redditor Sazk100 posted a screenshot earlier this week showing a YouTube popup warning that ad blockers are not allowed on the platform. It notes that ads allow YouTube to stay free for billions of users worldwide, and that an ad-free experience is available via the paid-for YouTube Premium. The message finishes with two options: Allow ads on YouTube or try YouTube Premium, which is $11.99 per month or $119.99 per year for access to original programs and no ads.
Some users who've seen it say they have been able to simply close the pop-up and continue blocking ads on YouTube, but it's likely that Google will clamp down on this, or make the pop-up appear regularly enough to be a distraction.
The moderators of the YouTube subreddit wrote that an employee had confirmed the ad-blocker message was an experiment by YouTube. A Google spokesperson expanded on this in a statement to IGN.
"We're running a small experiment globally that urges viewers with ad blockers enabled to allow ads on YouTube or try YouTube Premium," they said. "Ad blocker detection is not new, and other publishers regularly ask viewers to disable ad blockers."
While most online companies make their revenue from ads, some complain that YouTube has gone too far, citing its increasing number of unskippable and extended mid-roll ads.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by Thexalon on Friday May 12, @02:06PM (3 children)
If you know anything at all about British Parliament, you know full well that being an MP makes you less believable, not more. They are, after all, politicians, and if a politician tells you the sky is blue you would do well to look up before believing them.
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.
(Score: 0, Insightful) by RedGreen on Friday May 12, @03:29PM (1 child)
"If you know anything at all about British Parliament, you know full well that being an MP makes you less believable, not more."
If they are member of the Repugnant Party wanna to be party the Conservatives then 99.99999999% of the time they are trying to do harm to their people and are totally lying their ass off. Like the idiots in the US they aim to be like they have went out of their way to kill off many of their citizens using the garbage they spew at all times as they can. Usually the other parties while being lying cocksuckers are not out to actively kill off the people they serve, they try to do some good for the people unlike that right wing trash.
"I modded down, down, down, and the flames went higher." -- Sven Olsen
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 13, @02:22AM
you want to try that again in english?
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 13, @12:31AM
They don't care if you "believe" them, they just want you to reelect them