# YouTube "forbidding" ad blockers. Concerns, if any?

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**Created:** [October 13, 2023, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youtube-forbidding-ad-blockers-concerns-if-any/991493 "2023-10-13T04:54:38Z")\
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**Post date:** [June 17, 2024, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youtube-forbidding-ad-blockers-concerns-if-any/991493/437 "2024-06-17T16:15:23Z")

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A short while ago I signed up for YouTube Premium. I’m still in the “free trial” period but am leaning toward paying for it after that. I get enough benefit from YouTube that it seems fair that I pay something for it. (I did have some minor concerns that I was rewarding enshittification; but YouTube has to pay their bills somehow, either by ad revenue or some other revenue source.)

Anyway, since that time I have seen neither ads nor any kind of nagging or pushback against using adblockers. I’ve mostly been using Chrome with AdBlock, although I just turned the AdBlock off on YouTube to see if it made a difference, and so far I haven’t seen any.

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