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1408022 2015-09-07 09:19:00 Google Chrome is disabling Ad-Block Plus on it's YouTube app

www.neowin.net

In the comments there is a workaround for this by uninstalling the YouTube App and other means

Looks like there is now a push back by revenue collectors of various Software vendors
Lawrence (2987)
1408023 2015-09-07 21:27:00 If Google's advertizers think for one second that I'll buy their product based on the Youtube ad they need to think again. paulw (1826)
1408024 2015-09-07 21:39:00 No ads, no money
No money, no writers
No writers, no content for you to read for free on the web
nmercer (3899)
1408025 2015-09-07 22:31:00 Undestood but IMHO website designers need to reign it in a bit. Some youtube videos are so buried under banners you can barely see the video and then they hide the close buttons. It can take half a music video and a couple of accidental mis-clicks on adds to clear all the junk out of the way. Other websites have huge animated adds all over the screen that are larger than the actual content.

If the content is so buried under adds as to make it annoying to get to no one will visit the website so there will be no add revenue. There needs to be a balance.
The reason add blockers are so popular is because advertisers are far too obtrusive.

Don't even get me start on those A$$es that put big green download buttons for unwanted software all over a page while hiding the actual download link you're after in small text somewhere else.
dugimodo (138)
1408026 2015-09-07 22:35:00 "...uninstalling the "YouTube" "app" resolves the issue."

Why the heck would anyone use the awefull youtube app to start with . On phones yes (unfortunately), but not on PC's

Or just use Firefox , problem solved .
1101 (13337)
1408027 2015-09-07 22:37:00 No ads, no money
No money, no writers
No writers, no content for you to read for free on the web

How about those lovely malicious ads that people inadvertently click.
Renegade (16270)
1408028 2015-09-07 22:41:00 No ads, no money
No money, no writers
No writers, no content for you to read for free on the web

+1

Dugimodo also has some very good observations above.
They don't bother me much usually as I have trained myself to ignore them anyway.
CliveM (6007)
1408029 2015-09-07 22:44:00 How about those lovely malicious ads that people inadvertently click.

yep, because website admins dont bother to check where the adds linked to, or keep an eye on their own website & adds that run on it

"Several popular websites and news sources have been victims to malvertising and have had malicious advertisements placed on their webpages or widgets unknowingly, including Horoscope.com, The New York Times,[9] the London Stock Exchange, Spotify, and The Onion.[6]"
en.wikipedia.org
1101 (13337)
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