Ad Blocker

Ad blockers are tools that web users enable to avoid online ads. Services such as YouTube often combat this with tactics like unskippable video rolls. Recent moves involve longer and unskippable film clips to prevent users from blocking them. Some feel services act this way because of revenue reasons and the desire to get more users onto subscription. While others disagree with how YouTube is behaving.

Ad Blocker Latest updates:
YouTube Ad Policies Ad policies from major streaming providers show ways to get better revenue.
Impact of Blockers on Content Creators Ad blockers decrease ability for revenue by content teams and creative professionals who work for it.
Ways to Reduce Streaming Ads Techniques from ad blockers have to often retool due to countermeasures to prevent or combat their effectiveness.
Streaming Subscription Options Paid subscriptions can show an ability to make streaming an ad free process for major websites.
Long ads on YouTube Google seems to combat add blocker usage by implementing up to 58 minute long ads on its platform YouTube.

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  • Question 1: Why do people use ad blockers?

    Answer 1: Most are due to annoying pop-up ads across sites. Ad blockers prevent them so it's a faster browsing experience for the user.

  • Question 2: Are there issues with using ad blockers?

    Answer 2: Certain publishers have begun to block their content unless ad blocker is removed for those websites.

  • Question 3: What options do creators use when facing ad blockers?

    Answer 3: A common technique has been to create better ad content that isnt intrusive.

  • Question 4: Are streaming costs worth reducing ads?

    Answer 4: Paying for subscritption on ad support website will show to create reduced ad or zero experience as promised.

  • Question 5: Is ad blocking legal to use?

    Answer 5: Using add blocker tech is seen as completely fair. But some streaming places want to avoid these practices on some platforms.

  • Question 6: Do I risk getting caught for using ad blockers?

    Answer 6: Most sites won't block your acount on using ad blocking software so the user doesnt usually risk that problem. If the problem consist's the website usually disables content.

  • Question 7: What is the deal behind all this?

    Answer 7: There has always been this tug-of-war going on beteween Google ad team with user on who watches what without disturbance.

  • Question 8: Is Google siding towards users that blocks ads or users that don't?

    Answer 8: Clearly since it's a for profit business Google's primary objective is going after companies that use add blockers.

  • Question 9: I got served an hour-long ad because I use addblock. Is there any way to stop this?

    Answer 9: Unfortunately not, its an action that they put in to action of adding longer period adds that can't be skip to deter you from continuing add block. Unless you upgrade to an susbcription there isn't much more to do on current state.