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The company has been testing new methods to detect and block ad blockers for months, and it is now rolling out these changes more broadly. Previously, the above notice would appear, but could still proceed with watching videos without ads. It appears that for some users though, now the videos are completely disabled unless the ad blocker is disabled or youtube.com is whitelisted.
Furthermore, the company maintains that ad blockers directly violate YouTube’s terms of service and cheat the platform’s creators around the world out of the earnings they would otherwise get from Adsense. This is a tricky situation as the platform has recently implemented changes that make ad breaks longer but less frequent, affecting the users’ online experience.
It is unclear how effective YouTube’s new ad blocking measures will be. However, it is clear that the company is set on enforcing the rules and do right by its creators, even if it causes an inconvenience to some.
