YouTube isn't happy you're using ad blockers — and it's doing something about it

YouTube is apparently looking to crack down on ad blockers. Credit: Photo illustration by Nikolas Kokovlis/NurPhoto via Getty Images Some YouTube users are starting to see a prompt warning them that ad blockers are not allowed on the platform. That could prove a major roadblock for folks worldwide. As reported by The Verge this week, this is the latest step in a building crusade from the platform against ad blockers.Jay Peters of The Verge wrote that they were getting a prompt from YouTube saying that it looked like they were using an ad blocker — and that YouTube required a person to have ads or upgrade to Premium to use the platform. YouTube said, however, that this was part of a test that began over the summer to prohibit the use of ad blockers on the platform. Wrote Peters in The Verge:I’m starting to see YouTube’s ad blocker prompt — are you?I asked if Google was starting to show the prompt to more people, but spokesperson Christopher Lawton pointed back to a statement from June defining the prompt as a “small experiment globally.”A quick online search shows that Peters is not alone in seeing the ad blocker prompt. People are
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