YouTube gets more aggressive in pushing adblock warnings with countdown timer
I wonder how are they &quot;detecting adblock&quot;. Let&#x27;s say I have an alternative youtube client like smartyoutubetv. What will they do? Check if ads are loaded? Fine, the software can be written to load the ads, but not display them. Will they check the timing info? (that you pull a part of the video, then pull the ad for 30s,then the rest?). Will they encode the ad right into the video stream? The app can be coded with a play buffer. Like the tivo &quot;skip ads on TV feature&quot; of decades ago.<p>There is no way youtube can win this battle using &quot;brute force&quot;. The only way they can win this is by offering a new better service, not deteriorating existing ones. What could that new service be? How about recommendations that don&#x27;t suck? I used to watch a lot of youtube on my TV from the main page. These days I only use a list of my subscribed channels and a search feature.<p>Also, if youtube gets really aggressive people will go elsewhere.