YouTube has long fought a battle against ad blockers, including limiting the number of videos that users could watch and delaying video loading.
A hot potato: It appears that YouTube is once again trying to convince users of adblockers to switch off the software by degrading their viewing experience on the platform. The latest punishment appears to skip YouTube videos straight to the end and occasionally play clips without audio.
YouTube has long fought a battle against ad blockers, including limiting the number of videos that users could watch and delaying video loading.
It appears that YouTube/Google’s latest tactic against adblocking fans involves skipping videos straight to the end.
As shown in a video posted on Reddit (below), replaying the video still causes it to skip to the end screen, as does jumping to different sections of the clip – at one point, the video appears to load indefinitely.
