Google is making adjustments to its guidelines for using extensions for the Chrome web browser. These changes could make it significantly more difficult for ad blockers to function, particularly on YouTube. Google’s strategy is to move from...
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Yesterday, many users began complaining about a five-second delay in loading YouTube videos in Firefox and Microsoft Edge browsers. They claimed that the lag occurs regardless of the presence of an ad blocker, while this issue was not observed in...
The ad blocker uBlock Origin is considered one of the best extensions in its segment, but next summer it may no longer exist in its current form: Google told about plans to stop supporting the Chrome Manifest V2 API and switch entirely to Manifest...
YouTube has tightened its crackdown on ad blockers, but is facing a new challenge: European Union (EU) data protection laws. Data protection expert Alexander Hanff filed a complaint with the Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) in October. Hanff...
The YouTube administration has expanded the target audience on which the mechanism for disabling viewers who use ad blockers will be “tested”. This measure led to a massive removal of such tools, but their developers are not giving up yet. Image...
The video service YouTube has expanded its efforts in the fight against ad blockers. platform “launched a global initiative”which is intended to encourage users to add the resource to exceptions in their ad blocker settings or subscribe to YouTube...
Since May 2023, Google has been systematically combating ad blockers in browsers that restrict viewing videos on YouTube. More and more users are seeing warnings and pop-up messages that block YouTube videos from playing if their ad blocker is...
