YouTube has been cracking down on people using ad blockers. Now, a spokesperson says that using ad blockers could lead to "suboptimal viewing."

YouTube warns it might make your viewing experience worse if you don’t turn off your ad-blocker::YouTube has been cracking down on people using ad blockers. Now, a spokesperson says that using ad blockers could lead to “suboptimal viewing.”

  • @mvirts@lemmy.worldEnglish
    19•1 year ago

    YouTube is just messing around. They could encode ads randomly on videos if they wanted to, like podcasts.

    • FartsWithAnAccentEnglish
      18•1 year ago

      There’s already a sponsor blocker extension that skips when a sponsor is even mentioned, it would be trivial to add other embedded ads to it.