YouTube Reportedly Bypassing Ad Blockers On Google Chrome

Posted by samzenpus on Monday September 7, 2015 @06:10AM from the watch-this dept.

An anonymous reader writes: YouTube users have lit up twitter today, angry about an apparent change of policy by Google, which now seems to be showing ads in front of videos on YouTube even when using Adblock. Neowin reports: "Google's workaround seems to be applicable to all similar extensions and isn't exclusive to just AdBlock Plus. The company has not stopped at just skirting the extension, however. Users with AdBlock enabled will now have to see full-length video ads with no option to skip them half-way through, a feature YouTube has offered for a very long time. The only way to get the option back is to disable AdBlock, or to whitelist YouTube."

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begun by circletimessquare · 2015-09-07 06:18 · Score: 5, Funny

the ad wars have

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Re:Only affects "Youtube app" in chrome by MightyMartian · 2015-09-07 06:27 · Score: 4, Funny

But I want to be angry. I want to see blood! Fuck you and your rationality.

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Re:Back to Firefox by U2xhc2hkb3QgU3Vja3M · 2015-09-07 06:42 · Score: 5, Funny

Yeah, I'm not going to let a giant multinational company dictate how I use my browser.
I'm going back to Safari.