YouTube Reportedly Testing New Method to Disrupt Ad Blockers Amid Ongoing Crackdown

YouTube is reportedly creating one other technique to crack down on third-party advert blockers, because the video streaming platform seems to be to extend income from customers who do not have a YouTube Premium subscription. It’s speculated that this alteration might mix the video and advert streams, stopping standard browser plugins from blocking these advertisements from being displayed. This improvement comes weeks after customers reported about movies routinely skipping to the top when utilizing third-party advert blockers on the Alphabet-owned video streaming service.

YouTube reportedly combining video and advert streams

In a post on X (previously Twitter), SponsorBlock a plugin that skips previous sponsored sections of YouTube movies claims that YouTube is merging advertisements on to the video stream. At current, movies and advertisements are mentioned to be two separate parts. The participant routinely pauses the video to show the advertisements at specified timestamps.

With this alteration, the video stream is a steady one, that means third-party advert blockers might not be capable to block them anymore, based on SponsorBlock. The open-source browser extension mentioned that it could not be capable to perform correctly if server-side advertisements are launched, as “all timestamps are offset by the advert instances.”

YouTube’s crackdown on advert blockers continues

Customers with advert blockers enabled reported final month that they have been going through one other concern – movies have began to routinely skip to the top. Within the YouTube subreddit, a person reported that they have been unable to look at movies when an advert blocker is turned on. The person additionally allegedly tried to skip to sure sections of the video, nevertheless it seems to fast-forward to the top routinely.

In some instances the place some customers have been in a position to circumvent this concern, the audio playback disappeared. This meant whereas they have been in a position to watch the video, the audio was lacking.

This crackdown is alleged to be a part of YouTube’s “international effort” taking over advert blockers. As per the video-streaming platform, these applications, usually offered as browser plugins, violate its API companies’ phrases of service.