• YouTube is intensifying efforts to combat adblockers, including blocking video playback and warning users of potential account suspension.
  • Increased ads on YouTube have driven many users to adblockers, hurting both YouTube’s ad revenue and content creators reliant on ad-based income.
  • Despite these measures, many users are leaving YouTube or finding workarounds, leading creators to seek alternative revenue streams off-platform.
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A lot of instances have been getting these “Sign in to confirm your not a not” messages, if to many people use them at the same time. It works after a while again, but only being able to watch Videos sometimes, when the right stars align properly, is to unreliable for most user, me included.

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Ah. Yeah I’m the only one using my instance. Haven’t had that issue.

Once piped stops working for me YouTube is dead to me. I had to load up a video at work the other day using the YouTube website and holy crap is it naaty looking these days. Can’t use any browser extensions at work so ads and crap everywhere.

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