Google renews its assault on YouTube ad blockers

[Redaktion]

The fight against blocking ads on the Google-owned online video sharing and social media platform YouTube continues as third-party apps that go against its terms of service are now in the tech giant's crosshairs. There are no names mentioned in Google's announcements, but we should hear them soon enough.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Google-renews-its-assault-on-YouTube-ad-blockers.828022.0.html

[NikoB]

But in the Russia, under "sanctions," there is no advertising on YouTube at all, even without blockers...

[Codrut Nistor]

And the answer to that is nobody bothers paying for ads because the Russian online ad market simply died when the sanctions hit. Obviously, that wasn't much of a deal, because Russia can still sell its oil and other products to China, India, and so on, and the sanctions actually managed to hit people and businesses who had a irrelevant contribution to the war effort. Well... Western democracy, working as (not) intended, once again! P.S. This is a personal rant. NBC has no political affiliation. And I don't support communism/dictatorships for sure.

[NikoB]

Russia sells oil and gas to Western countries, these are proven facts. All of Europe receives them through intermediaries.
They get its wheat and grain, they get its steel и another metals,  and nuclear fuel. They get everything they need and pretend that they are "fighting" the Putin regime, while cynically declaring that the population supporting him has nothing to do with it, and this is more than 50% of the population.

Imagine that in World War II, England or the United States received fuel from Nazi Germany. and eat bread made from wheat grown in Nazi Germany. They got steel and everything else and at the same time waged war with them.

The truth is that the hypocritical and two-faced West did not really try to fight the Putin regime and the population supporting it. They are cowardly and selfish in their base goals, they do not care about the principles and life of Ukrainians.

They directly stated at the level of key figures in the Biden administration that they are afraid of Putin and do not want to fight with him, so they will continue to allow him to destroy the cities of Ukraine and destroy their population.

What other evidence is needed of the complete moral decline of the West in the eyes of the remnants of normal people around the world?

Google broadcasts Russian state propaganda. Because his beneficiaries want it that way.

[NikoB]

Is it possible to see a more cynical and two-faced speech by a representative of the US State Department in the modern history of mankind?
www.newsweek.com/white-house-explains-difference-between-ukraine-israel-military-support-1891071

Let me remind the US State Department that in the early 90s they forced Ukraine to hand over 3,000 nuclear warheads to the Russian Federation, promising in the Budapest Memorandum (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budapest_Memorandum) to ensure the security and territorial integrity of Ukraine in exchange for the renunciation of nuclear weapons, which 2014 could easily have been prevented by Putin's Russia's attack on Ukraine and the seizure of Crimea.

Thus, the United States signed a verdict of duplicity and hypocrisy, as well as its complete immorality, especially after the latest statements. The presence of US aircraft in Ukraine in no way constitutes an entry into war - let me remind you that the Russian Federation has not officially declared war on Ukraine and martial law is NOT in effect in the Russian Federation. And since everyone in the West claims that US authorities are elected through democratic elections, i.e. power is legitimate, just like Putin's power (the USA and Europe officially recognized the presidential elections of the Russian Federation in 2024 as LEGITIMATE, as they cynically did for all 25 years before, knowing perfectly well at the level of each administration who they were dealing with), which means that a large number of people are also to blame for this part of the population of the USA and England - the key countries that signed the Budapest Memorandum.

This means that Ukraine is free from any further obligations, it needs to make thermonuclear warheads as soon as possible (they are capable of this, I am sure of this - the main thing is to clean out the pro-Western agents in power who can deliberately hinder this - now the main thing is to disengage with the West) and strike the Aggressor with them if she really loses.

[Neenyah]

No amount of attempts was able to stop pirating "industry" from pirating music and movies, no amount of attempts is going to stop simply "pirating" YT videos without even opening YT website itself, so all their attempts to stop adblocks - while you can watch YT vids without being on YT at all - are just sad. The only way how they can win this is if they simply shut down the whole YT, lol. So they will waste time and efforts on this instead on focusing to actually IMPROVE THEIR SERVICE AND MAKE PEOPLE WILLING TO PAY. Elite level clowns.
 
And while there are no ads to block on Steam let's just pull a parallel here to compare those in their business approach - Valve is focused to provide value to their customers so there is simply no reason to pirate games because pirating itself takes more time and it's a bigger hassle than simply buying that same game on Steam with their frequent discounts.

Meanwhile G🤢🤢gle/YouTube is focused to charge more and provide less and less. So f*** them. My adblock is not going away and I will download everything from there (as I do now) without touching that site at all, all the way up to 4K 60 fps.

And yes, I'm aware that blocking ads is not pirating but just saying that all their efforts to block ads are pointless when you don't have to visit the site at all to watch vids there - in better bitrate and quality than what they offer in almost all Premium plans 😆

Edit: Btw, if you watch YT through bing.com there is not a single ad to see even without adblock in your browser. Even Microsoft is blocking them 😃

[NikoB]

Let me also remind you how the United States and its allies cynically and duplicitously declared 2 years ago, when it really could have turned the situation in favor of Ukraine's victory (but they definitely didn't need it) - that they could not transfer aviation and tanks, as well as himars/long-range missiles actions because they "were afraid of a nuclear conflict with the Russian Federation." Those. Now they are NOT afraid? Or did Putin let them do it? Those. It is Putin who decides in the world - where are the boundaries of what is permitted?

It turns out that Putin is the main one on the planet, and the USA and the EU are secondary and subordinate to his will on key issues of civilization.

Q.E.D.

[NikoB]

Well, as for the insignificant topic of news against this background. I'm just glad that Russians use Youtube without any advertising, unlike other countries. This only emphasizes their privileged position.