YouTube took another step in the ad blocker war

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Continuing to be no leader in the space, YouTube has opened a new chapter in the ad blocker war. The company is on an interesting path this time. is watching.

YouTube, has been waging a war against ad blockers on its web version for a while now. Since advertisements are the main source of income for both the creators and the creators, a new step has been brought to the agenda today for the war that has been initiated. According to many users YouTube has started to skip/wrap videos opened by people using ad blockers. In other words, if the platform detects an installed ad blocker, it does not allow you to watch the opened video, but skips it directly at the end. The company’s ad-blocking campaign has been expanded to third-party applications in recent months. That’s why you can’t get a smooth experience in third-party YouTube applications that have built-in ad blockers. The company said in a statement that people who use these applications will be protected if the ad blocking infrastructure is turned on. You may encounter buffering or other video loading issues. or “Content not available in this appHe stated that he might see an error message saying “

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Before this, the new web interface for YouTube, which was actively tested, appeared. In this interface you can see below, key contents such as video title, video description and comments are displayed. moves from below videos to the right side, recommendation videos appear directly under the videos. The new interface opened to some users and did not receive good feedback. When videos are made full screen, all the content is brought together at the bottom. The company removed this design for a while, but recently started testing it on a large scale again.

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