YouTube now sabotages ad-blocking apps that stream its vids

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in YouTube's help forum notes netizens using applications that strip out adverts while streaming YouTube videos may encounter playback issues due to buffering or error messages indicating that the content is not available.

"We want to emphasize that our terms don’t allow third-party apps to turn off ads because that prevents the creator from being rewarded for viewership, and Ads on YouTube help support creators and let billions of people around the world use the streaming service," said a YouTube team member identified as Rob."We also understand that some people prefer an entirely ad-free experience, which is why we offer YouTube Premium.

This crackdown is coming at the API level, as these outside apps use this interface to access the Google-owned giant's videos.using the API from"restricting ads from playing in your API service when they would otherwise play on YouTube or in an embedded video." While YouTube did not cite specific apps believed to be violating its rules, there are a number of third-party apps that show YouTube videos without ads, such as FreeTube, a YouTube client for Windows, Mac, and Linux; LibreTube, a YouTube client for Android; and Piped, a YouTube web client.Firefox slow to load YouTube? Just another front in Google's war on ad blockers

What's really going on with Chrome's June crackdown on extensions – and why your ad blocker may or may not workit was running scripts to detect ad-blocking extensions in web browsers, which ended up interfering with Firefox page loads and prompted aA survey published last month by Ghostery, a maker of software that promotes privacy by blocking ads and tracking scripts,that Google's efforts to crack down on ad blocking made about half of respondents more willing to use an ad blocker.

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