As you know, we reported in the past weeks that the YouTube platform will no longer allow you to use ad-blocking applications. Accordingly, it would now be mandatory for you to watch YouTube ads. However, when we look at the surveys on the subject, it seems that users are in resistance. Here are the details about the subject…
Users: We will continue to use YouTube ad blockers!
First of all, let’s give a brief summary for our readers who are not aware of this new rule of platform. Accordingly, the ad blockers you use on the YouTube platform are now disabled by the platform. Thus, you have to watch all the ads even if you don’t want to, otherwise the videos you want cannot be played.
However, we can say that users have started to try all kinds of ad-blocking applications. When an app doesn’t work, they uninstall it and install another and continue their ad-free platform experience. In fact, our careful readers will remember that in a news article we published recently, we stated that “a record number of people are working on alternatives that will not get caught in YouTube’s network .”
When this situation was asked to platform viewers in the form of a survey, it was seen that users started a slight resistance among themselves. According to the Android Authority survey conducted with 2,300 people, 63.1 percent of users stated that they would continue to use blocking applications. The comments made by users in this segment were generally as follows: “When blockers stop working, we switch to another application. “We will continue the ad-free YouTube experience.”
In addition, 25.7 percent stated that they would quit YouTube and use another alternative. However, there are no longer alternatives such as DailyMotion or Vimeo as before. This shows that users will continue to use YouTube for a while.
While 5.9 percent stated that they would buy YouTube Premium even if forced, the remaining 5.3 percent stated that they would continue to watch YouTube videos with ads. So what do you think about YouTube ad blocker policy?
