YouTube isn’t happy you’re using ad blockers — and it’s doing something about it::Annoying.
The AdBlock arms race is still going on - would have been more precise
When they finally roll out full fledged DRM we will have to torrent channels.
If there won’t be any app to do it for me while looking like browsing YouTube I will rather simple stop using it. Their bandwidth at that point needs to be decrease as much as possible. But people are stupid and it won’t happened…
Your choice, i will keep watching couple of creators, even with P2P, and down their traffic goes.
In times of Sonarr and Radarr i just open a different app to watch them.
I actually pay for Premium at the moment, but still would need to sit through baked in sponsored messages, and YouTube Shorts or other internal YouTube big banner service advertisements. So i still have uBlock (and sponsor block) anyway to remove that stuff. At which point… Why am i paying for Premium again? They made their site awful to use regardless of if you pay, unless you use adblocking and other extensions.
Incoming, Youtube Premium+ with SponsorBlock.
Youtubers will mark their sponsored segments and get a higher payout for that.