YouTube is forcing some users to disable their ad blockers

As has been seen in the official YouTube subredditthe video platform is testing in an experiment –confirmed by the company-the possibility of using an ad blocker detection system to prevent users from skipping them.

This experiment is not being shown to all users, but to a small set of users of which another set It will only be the one who will see the notice against ad blockers, as ad blocker users are a minority.

The notice simply states that users using YouTube ad blockers are not allowed to use the platform.and they are offered to disable the blocker or simply pay for the use of YouTube through Premium, a subscription that, far from improving YouTube, it simply puts previously free features behind a paywall.

A YouTube spokesperson has confirmed to gizmodo that this is so, pointing out that the detection of ad blockers is not something new and that it is something that the owners of other websites regularly use to prevent users from using the site without seeing advertisements, which can be more or less intrusive.

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