YouTube is testing a more aggressive approach against ad blockers
The primary reason I use an adblocker is to prevent malware &#x2F; viruses.<p>I would be more accepting of ads in general if:<p>1 - they were all served from the primary websites server - eg yahoo blaming third party ad servers for injecting virus scripts and taking no responsibility is not okay with me.<p>2 - I had easy choices to block ads for things like gambling and alcohol at the ip level, not just browser level.<p>3 - no flashing animated ads on static text pages. I am amazed at some pages I see trying to read 6 sentences and instead I get three at a time with 3 moving ads taking up most of the space.<p>Obviously it&#x27;d be fine to have moving ads during a &#x27;commercial break&#x27; in a video.. but overlay a banner over it or next to it and having it moving is just wrong imho.<p>I didn&#x27;t use youtube much at all for a long time, but have recently trained the thing to give me interesting videos about CSS, new tools like framer io, clickup, AI,  &#x27;productizing&#x27; and other helpful content is now available to me easier now..<p>So if I could not block ads on youtube now, I would have to pay the $12 for premium if that&#x27;s what it costs.. I would suggest having a checkbox to add in a $5 bucket for tips to content creators and give a way to tip multiple of 10 cents or something - as I would like to support some of the folks adding value to the platform, and I&#x27;m guessing going 12 premium wouldn&#x27;t help them much if at all.<p>A few days ago I brought up some lists of &#x27;YT watch history&#x27; - it&#x27;s a decent amount for me the past few months 
- if 2 minutes of time was added to each one, and I had an employer, that company would be burning a fair amount of money for me to wait for ads each week at this point.<p>I also worry that ads at beginning of videos can be unfair when it seems a good percentage of videos I click then skip into a bit and find that they are not what I was expecting &#x2F; hoping for and the click itself, 3 second buffering, and 2 second seek - were a huge waste of time, I can&#x27;t imagine getting hit with added ads in those equations.