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Google Chrome bypass ad blocker extentions for YouTube. Adds a bit of revenge too.

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Using an ad blocker on Chrome, like AdBlock Plus?

You probably started to notice lately that YouTube now shows ads. In addition, they don't have a Skip button. That is right, until your have the ad blocker add-on YouTube will play ads in full, with no ability to skip.

Update:

Some users here says that using different ad blocking extensions not based on AdBlock Plus, seams to be working for them. At least, for now.

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On Twitter, user resVGC says:

Trying different ad blocking add-ons won't solve the problem either. The web browser detects that you are blocking YouTube ads, and by-passes the ad blocking, and doesn't give you the 'Skip' button anymore, even if the ad is several minutes long

There is a work around to this, and that is to uninstall the YouTube app from Chrome the Twitter user SteeScribbles claims.

It seams to be working for now... until Google bake the YouTube app in Chrome.

Firefox users aren't affected by this.

Source: http://www.neowin.net/news/google-chrome-reportedly-bypassing-adblock-forces-users-to-watch-full-length-video-ads

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Aggressive af. I'm just gonna have to wait for a better way to circumventing this crap without dropping chrome totally.

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Aggressive af. I'm just gonna have to wait for a better way to circumventing this crap without dropping chrome totally.

This will be the last in the coffin for chrome for me. Their poor battery efficiency is enough.

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So in unrelated news; Firefox has now 100% more users!

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I have chrome but have not seen a single ad and I am using ublock origin.

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you know it would happen some time. turned off ABP long time ago

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I know google and youtube use targeted advertising, if these ads were shorter and we saw less of the same ad every time, people won't even bother using adblock.

For example (I don't use adblock) I click to watch a 15 second video, I get a 30 second non-skippable ad that i've seen everyday! It's stuff like this which makes me really frustrated and makes people get adblock. Youtube's algorithm of displaying the ideal amount of ads to not annoy the user isn't very good.

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well I would watch YT adds if they would be like 30sec max, also I have addblock for all those pop ups not for youtube

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You know, I wouldn't have a problem if I didn't have to hear about the guy who drives his Lamborghini in the Hollywood Hills all the time.

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Pretty sure this is dangerous territory: Why should Google decide which extensions should and should not work? One of it's main selling points it's always been the extensions available and this pretty much negates that since they can decide arbitrarily to cripple that functionality.

 

Word to the wise: If you're like me and cannot stand Firefox you can use a Chrome based alternative like Opera or Torch (later is what I'm using) they do not seem to be affected.

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Luckily for all of us there's Opera. Same engine than Chrome and same extensions, but without the limitations of Google.

 

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Not affected here..

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Thats why i use firefox.

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Still using ABP and Chrome, not getting any ad's coming through?

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