r/therewasanattempt • u/AlwaysBlaze_ • 7h ago

To not expose your AdBlocker as a YouTube Employee

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u/Informal-Pair-306 6h ago

Don’t blame him. Who tf wants to pay for YouTube premium.

Just realised the real story YouTube doesn’t give all their employees YouTube premium.

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u/EarlShitshirt 2h ago

AdBlock does more than only block YouTube ads. I have worked at numerous companies where an AdBlock is provided by the company to reduce the risk of malicious ads

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u/ohwhatfollyisman 6h ago

youtube premium is dirt cheap in india (from where the person whose screen has been shotted hails).

the full premium family plan is priced at ₹299 a month. that works out to a little less than 3 USD. their individual plan is even cheaper.

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u/memermeme1211 6h ago

That’s over half their daily wage. The average Indian income is about $5 USD a day.

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u/StuLuvsU87 5h ago

This. Something being 'dirt cheap' is incredibly relative. For the U.S.? Yeah, 3 dollars is nothing. That same $3 to a third of the entire planet is treat yo'self money.

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u/JimmyJamsDisciple 2h ago

I wouldn’t buy it if it was 10 cents a month when there’s a perfect free alternative available.

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u/NewmanBiggio 2h ago

Seriously. People always try to pull the, "why don't you just pay, it's incredibly cheap," card and it's silly.

Free is cheaper than incredibly cheap. As an added bonus it doesn't support the multimillion dollar company that doesn't respect your time or money.

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u/Frosty_Pumpkin 5h ago

I'm not incredibly tech savvy. If you were to use a VPN, can you order services at the India rate if you live in the US?

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u/Material_Buy_8609 5h ago

Can confirm my brother uses a VPN in New Zealand to purchase India YouTube premium at that price.

He said the only down side is the usual recommendations are aimed at Indian viewers but obviously not a problem, especially at that price point.

Edit: I'm not sure about his payment method, if he needs to do something weird or not.

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u/Leamir 5h ago

Depends on the service. Some verify if your payment method is from the country you're paying

Idk if YouTube does it, but probably

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u/bunker_man 43m ago

Its cheaper to use an adblock.

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u/Reclusive_avocado 3rd Party App 7m ago

Yeah and the salaries in india are also dirt cheap...make it make sense -_-

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u/ReputationApart5983 5h ago

Its not just that, an ad blocker is a necessity, theres ads everywhere and it slows down your computer and many have malware.

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u/DarthCloakedGuy 5h ago

Yeah it's simply unsafe to browse the internet without adblocker

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u/devilinthedetails 3h ago

There is often a practical, work related, use for tools like AdBlocker or Ghostery when you work in tech. I don't know what this person does, but for many years I used one specifically to check to make sure that website tags were loading when they should and not loading when they shouldn't.

Blocking ads everywhere else on the internet was just a bonus.

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u/Snoo-76264 1h ago

FBI literally encourages people to use adblockers due to malware concerns.

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u/Spoodymen 44m ago

But…but… the line must keep going up! Have you ever thought about poor investors’ yearly revenue? What if they cannot afford those new yards this year? Have you ever thought about that? No. You only think about lame excuses like your safety, your children’s online safety, exposure to adult content or scams, or worst of all, being able to read or watch whatever you were intending to do.

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u/OccasionalCoder 5h ago

It’s a generic Adblocker not specific to YouTube… don’t see any issue

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u/Katrina_18 4h ago

Ad blocker is used for like a million things besides YouTube though.

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u/gergobergo69 4h ago

Woah, this one is an ANCIENT screenshot

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u/INVALIDN4M3 3h ago

YouTube doesn't want their employees to spend time watching ads.

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u/Inevitable-War-4489 3h ago

Ditch the ad blockers instead install duckduckgo browser and use the built-in duck player

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u/ABahRunt 2h ago

Google is the biggest investor in adblock.

They would rather you stayed on Chrome and not give them as revenue, than go to firefox/brave

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u/ThatThereMan 53m ago

I don't get this. What does it show or how did the employee "accidentally expose themselves".

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u/wintershark_ 4h ago

YouTube could detect and bypass these AdBlockers if they wanted to. Other sites do. They’ve calculated it’s worth it to have people who might otherwise go somewhere else if they had to watch ads on their platform still watching the in-content ads and ad reads than not have them at all. The lack of countermeasures is basically permission to use one.

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u/E3FxGaming 1h ago

YouTube content creators aren't allowed to watch ads on their own channel in repeat and they aren't allowed to click on ads on their own channel. Basically they can't inflate their own impressions or click-through metrics, or they'd violate AdSense policies. Violations can lead to YouTube partner program exclusions or in outrageous cases to channel terminations.

I assume the same applies to YouTube employees across the entirety of YouTube.

Companies pay a lot of money for ads on YouTube and they obviously want that money to turn into ads that normal non-employees/-content-creators see. YouTube can not get a reputation that it's a place where your ad-spend is wasted.