The Google video platform continues its war against Adblocks and other advertising blockers by revealing more and longer advertising breaks to disgust users.
This is a problem that concerns millions of users. YouTube, the most popular video streaming video platform, lives mainly advertising. Thus, without subscription to the paid premium formula, you must agree to watch some sequences of advertising before and during videos. And if Google has long tolerated pubs blockers, who made these imposed breaks jump, it has not been the same since last year. For a while, reading cannot start if an adblock type blocker has been detected. But as some have found parades, YouTube seems to have decided to move up a gear, with a measure as original as they are painful.
Blocker on YouTube: advertisements longer than videos!
On Reddit, some users have reported the appearance of almost an hour’s advertisements! A power cut sometimes longer than viewing the initial video that disturbs the followers of the platform. After Android Authority Who reports the facts would be due to active advertising blockers. In other words, Google, YouTube’s parent company, uses these tools to show very long and non -passable advertisements to certain users.
According to the source, it is a way for Google to punish certain users who have violated the conditions of use of YouTube. Since as a reminder, the use of Adblock type blockages is prohibited. Following the publication of the facts by Android Authority, Youtube reacted and declared: “Advertising maintains our creators alive because it helps them to manage and develop their business. Therefore, the use of advertising blockers violates the conditions of use of YouTube.” Google also adds to encourage its users with Adblock “To authorize advertising on Youtube.”
For the time being, the appearance of longer advertisements than the videos in themselves does not seem to have propagated. They remain a Google weapon against disrespectful users of the YouTube regulation. If the advertisements at the start and in the middle of videos disturb you, the best solutions is to go to YouTube Premium. With the paid version of the platform you will no longer have advertisements, the possibility of downloading video and audios content and taking advantage of them for a price of 12.99 euros per month. A subscription that remains high still compared to the other SVOD platforms and that does not really make sense when you have been used to more than twenty years to use YouTube for free…