YouTube and Ad-Blockers

[Ironhold]

OK.

YouTube just changed their terms of service so that ad-blockers are now no longer allowed, this despite the fact that the Chrome browser, which is owned by the same company that owns YouTube, has built-in ad blocking. 

Right now if it detects that you have an ad blocker you're restricted to only three videos at a pop. Not sure if this is daily or three final videos period. 

But for those who were watching church videos (et al) on YouTube, you're either going to have to make a hard choice or going to have to find another outlet. 

[zil2]

The Church's "Gospel Stream" app is ad free and appears to include all their YouTube content.

And at least right now, the Firefox plug-in "Enhancer for YouTube" will still skip over the ads (you can't even tell their are ads - this thing would be worth money, but it's free).

I also use a DNS server that excludes some ad-only servers, porn, and other family-unfriendly servers.  So far, this hasn't caused any problems with any website that insists I not block ads. The Firefox plug-in "uBlock Origin" has triggered websites that disallow ad-blockers, though.

And I use a javascript blocker (again, Firefox plug-in) so that nothing runs scripts without me allowing them (sometimes, this gets me around ads and, more rarely, the "you have to log in to see this" pop-up type things).  But it, too, has triggered websites that disallow ad-blockers.

I run yet another plugin that lets me apply my own CSS to web pages to hide content (including the positions where ads are placed) or otherwise alter the appearance.  The ads still load, but CSS prevents me from seeing them.

Finally, I use the browser's "hard to get to" settings to prevent videos from auto-playing anywhere any time. 

Needless to say, my browsing experience is much more pleasant than what I hear others complaining about.

[Still_Small_Voice]

I am getting really sick of all the censorship I see on YouTube.  In the future I hope www.rumble.com grows immensely in popularity.