Over the last few years, YouTube has made various efforts to strengthen its platform. changes. These changes include visual innovations, life quality improvements and major investments in YouTube Shorts is getting. However, one of the most notable changes is the addition of ad blockers. the war against YouTube.
New era in YouTube ads
YouTube has been fighting a serious war against ad blockers for some time. Third-party developers are developing new solutions to block ads. and YouTube is developing new ways to circumvent these solutions. The last that YouTube is working on server-side ad injections we previously reported.
Some Reddit users have reported that when using an ad blocker they shared that they saw a black segment of a few seconds. This is YouTube’s that it is trying a new method.
If you’ve never used an ad blocker before, it’s normally in the scenario the ad blocker cuts the ad and allows you to watch the video without interruption provides. However, with YouTube’s new server-side ad injection methods existing ad blockers cannot prevent this. This means that users resulting in a black screen on the screen.
YouTube Premium is the only legal way to get rid of ads on the platform as well as access to YouTube Music Premium, access to videos offline and PiP (Picture-in-Picture) mode, as well as many additional benefits. However, some users do not want to pay for YouTube Premium and argues that content should be free.
YouTube recently announced on the YouTube Help blog that browser extensions announced changes aimed at strengthening its security. This includes the changes will protect users from cyberattacks. However, YouTube said that these changes would render some browser extensions ineffective. that it could bring.
The blog post said that YouTube extensions could cause some users’ videos may cause it not to load. This is the ad blocker extensions may also be affected.
YouTube says that users can temporarily disable their browser extensions in this case. or use the browser in incognito mode. This new many people who see the changes as a step against ad blockers. users express their concerns about the new ads.