yeah I did the same on ublock because i was signing in using incognito mode and forgot the other day and it worked fine for me again
I use Adblocker Ultimate by-tor, but like the last few posters got one day in the last 10 where the warnings shut down my videos, but no issues since, so I assume AU is likewise trying to keep ahead of the curve.
I was getting the warning again (which is really the most annoying ad-block warning I think I’ve seen), so now I’m trying Brave browser, just for YouTube and so far so good. I don’t know what I’m going to do for my Chromebook, though.
I am a YouTube Premium subscriber because my wife and I are addicted to YouTube and it really does make our lives much easier. As such, I could log in while at work to avoid the “ad block” problem.
BUT
I don’t want the videos I watch at work to pollute my recommendations at home!
When I am at home, I want to see recommendations for machine shop videos, science videos, history documentaries, and other similar things.
When I am at work, I want to see recommendations for networking, Wireshark deep dives, Oracle databases, Microsoft SMB2, and similar things.
I don’t want them mixed up. This is why I don’t want to use my personal account in both places. If YouTube could provide an answer I’ll be happy.
It seems you can pay for YouTube Premium Family account. That costs $23/month (compared to $14/month for individual) and allows for five accounts in the household to be used on it at once. Then you could have one account for work, one for you at home and one for your wife.
That’s the account I pay for. I hadn’t considered creating another account for work–doesn’t that mean I would have a second Google account then?
This might do the trick.
Yup…each place would need to be a distinct account (AIUI).
Any email address can be a Google account – I have one for my hotmail and gmail addresses. So, if you have any non-gmail address, make that a Google account and add it to the family plan.
A little while ago, I got a memo from YouTube that they are removing creator control of pre-roll and post-roll ad choices (before that, I could choose, for example, to have only skippable ads, or to have no pre-roll ads at all). In that notification, they state that midroll ads are still completely at the discretion of the creator, but if I had to bet, I would say there will come a point, maybe within the next 12 months, where midrolls are made mandatory. I expect their placement within the video will be configurable, but there will be a minimum quota based on the run length of the video.
Automatic placement will probably be offered - the YouTube algorithms are already capable of automatically generating chapter data if the video creator doesn’t impose it explicitly.
Yeah. IMO, this is the problem they should be trying to solve. I don’t know how they would solve it because scams and fraud are a pestilence all over the internet like never before - you can’t trust any rating or review system; you can’t be sure the product you buy online will be real or fake, and nobody seems to be able to bring that situation under control. If anyone theoretically could solve it, it ought to be a company like Google, with the resources they have.
I feel like I’ve lately been seeing a lot more videos with ads placed in them by the creator, rather than by YouTube. I’m sure YouTube doesn’t love that, since they don’t make any money from those.
Yeah, sponsorship segments are pretty common - nearly every sizeable channel does them it seems.
YouTube has a policy that video creators must declare things like sponsorship, product placement and paid reviews (including payment in kind such as a free product).
It does make me wonder if YouTube will attempt to win this battle with adblocking by just rendering the ads directly into the main video itself
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The big difference is those are skippable, and many creators even have it marked out as a segment so one knows where to join back in. YT doesn’t have a reason to allow creators to make them unskippable, but if YT does put them in themselves it may find a way, which I’m sure they are trying.
I’m sure they are. I don’t personally have any objection to them making ads unskippable. It costs Google money to run the infrastructure to host online video. Ads are how they fund that.
I don’t think it’s wrong for them to make ads a condition of entry just like you have to pay to enter a concert or whatever.
They should have a responsibility to moderate the ads to mitigate scams and malware, which they are neglecting.
Speaking of…
I had the joy of getting to watch the ad for some snake oil to activate my amygdala!
Louis Rossmann on youtubes adblock war (25:00).
YouTube’s adblock war is backfiring in the worst way possible
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_GARcKCaUfI
Wow, great timing… I was just about to come back here to mention something like that. 
YouTube is getting absolutely hammered on this. It’s amazing. Usually you can count on a few pathetic snivelling corporate toadies relentlessly rah-rahing for the tyrant who wouldn’t urinate on them if they were on fire. No one’s backing management this time. I’m hearing creators who RELY on ad revenue state on the record that YouTube went way too far. It really is the perfect storm, a super-rich corporation trying to gobble even more money by enforcing excessive and frequently illegal and/or dangerous interruptions, and then using them to plug a grossly overpriced service.
In fact, pretty much the only reason we’re not seeing even more rage over these pop-up warnings is…well, how crappy YouTube’s been at policing itself. I kid you not, there’s a video on there called “How to fix and & bypass YouTube anti ad block detection” (mainly how to update UBlock so it’s up to the task, which I did…no trouble since 
), which went up last month and as of right now still hasn’t been taken down.
Folks, this isn’t a soulless corporation losing the fight, it’s a soulless corporation never knowing there was a fight in the first place. Just whip up a series of increasingly annoying popups at regular invervals, that’ll fix everything! And then a few months down the line someone actually sees the results, opps, that didn’t fix anything, and someone will brainstorm up another slapdash quick fix that’s sure to work this time, rinse and repeat. I wouldn’t be surprised if Plan C was preachy PSA’s.
I never bothered to block ads on YouTube in the first place, but now when I pick a video to watch I get this nagging pop-up announcement saying that adblockers aren’t allowed and they’ve noticed I am using one in my browser.
Then I have to click the button to allow YouTube ads.
Then the screen is all greyed out and I have to refresh it before I can watch the video.
As far as I can tell, the actual number of ads I see isn’t any different from what I was seeing before.
I gave in and whitelisted YouTube. I honestly hadn’t realized my ad blocker was removing ads from the videos in the first place. I really don’t mind some ads, including ones that play before the video, and I want content creators to get paid. It’s really only the obnoxiously intrusive ads I want to block – the ones that flash, or play sound, or the ones that expand and cover up the thing you were trying to read if you happen to accidentally move your cursor over them.