Youtube renews war on adblockers by testing out a three-video limit | PC Gamer

Home News (Image credit: YouTube) YouTube’s been tinkering with its ads again. In its latest experiment, you’ll be put on a countdown of three videos if an adblock’s detected, after which you’ll be forced to either whitelist the site or do something else with your time. In a thread on the YouTube subreddit, user Reddit_n_Me posted a screenshot of an ominous warning that states that the “Video player will be blocked after three videos”, with a helpful 1-2-3 diagram for the visual learners among us. It then reminds you that ads help YouTube remain free for users, and that you can shell out for premium to avoid them.YouTube cracking down on if you’re not paying them to block the ads, it hurts me, and hurt you. from r/youtubeThis was then confirmed by The Verge when they spoke to YouTube last week, who said its been running: “a small experiment globally that urges viewers with ad blockers enabled to allow ads on YouTube or try YouTube Premium […] Ad blocker detection is not new, and other publishers regularly ask viewers to disable ad blockers.” “We take disabling playback very seriously, and will only disable playback if viewers ignore repeated requests to allow ads
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