Google is reportedly testing new alerts with free customers watching movies with an advert blocker. Final month, Google confirmed that it was operating a “small experiment” that required choose customers with advert blockers to disable them to observe movies.
Earlier this week, a Reddit consumer (through Android Police) shared a screenshot of a brand new pop-up warning him that the YouTube video participant will likely be blocked after 3 movies if he doesn’t disable his advert blocker.
The message as soon as once more emphasizes that “adverts enable YouTube to remain free for billions of customers worldwide. It additionally recommends subscribing to YouTube Premium to get pleasure from an ad-free expertise
Whereas this new pop-up is barely much less aggressive than the earlier one, it seems that Google is making ready to crack down on advert blocker extensions. Nevertheless, customers within the Reddit thread claimed that the uBlock Origin content material blocker browser extension doesn’t seem like blocked but.
It’s at the moment not clear if Google is at the moment displaying these alerts to a variety of free customers with advert blockers. Anyway, this strong-arm tactic is probably not one of the simplest ways to encourage customers to subscribe to YouTube Premium, which is priced at $11.99/month within the US
