YouTube confirmed last week that it was testing a three-strikes policy for people who block ads on the platform. The policy will see video playback temporarily blocked for viewers who repeatedly block ads.That got us wondering whether Android Authority readers would pony up for YouTube Premium or try other workarounds to avoid ads first. We posed this question last week and here are the results.Will this policy make you buy YouTube Premium? Results This was a massively popular poll, with almost 18,000 votes cast. The most popular pick? Well, 54.9% of respondents said they’d use other workarounds to avoid YouTube ads first. There are indeed other measures you can take, although the YouTube Vanced saga suggests that Google could crack down on some of these approaches too.Meanwhile, the second most popular choice in this poll was “No, I’ll use other platforms,” accounting for 35.3% of the vote. The biggest issue here is that there aren’t many other quality alternatives to YouTube. And so I do wonder whether even half of these respondents would actually switch to something like DailyMotion.Otherwise, 6.3% of polled readers said they’d just sit through the ads, while 3.4% of respondents said YouTube’s three-strikes policy will make
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You told us: You'd use other workarounds before buying YouTube Premium
