Strange goings on with Videos

byLH-CLUB

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10 years ago

I changed my theme then I had a problem with my video`s not displaying properly, like it was a blank screen with a slider and huge images, very strange, not seen that before, so I changed back my theme thinking something was not right, deactivated all the Plugins no difference, reinstalled flash player, no difference, it was the same in youtube, Hmmm I thought, there is connection there, seeing that I got the video`s from youtube.

I checked on my old computer and it was fine, so the problem is with my computer of 7 months, it was staring me in the face, Adblock plus, turned it off then it all went back to normal so that was the culprit.

See what google has to say about Adblock plus?

Google found a way to bypass Adblock in YouTube

Adblock has been a life-saver to many web advertising critics out there. This software makes publicity disappear in most websites, but the problem with a cleaner internet is that those running these pages have found themselves affected by lower revenues. Pagefair’s studies corroborate that about 144 million users take advantage of Adblock as of the end of 2014, which accounts for about 5% of the whole internet community. This would seem like a small number, but since these numbers are mostly concentrated in western markets, profits have seen a significant impact.

To put it into perspective, about 27.6 of the surveyed USA-based participants claimed to use the ad-blocking services. This likely also means that over a fourth of the possible earnings are being stripped away from online businesses, which often depend on advertising. Of course, Google and some of its services is also going to see a negative effect from such services, so they have decided to take action. A bevy of online reports tell us the Search Giant has found a way to bypass Adblock’s effects in YouTube.

According to these reports, YouTube is now treating video ads as pre-clips, making it impossible to avoid them. The most interesting part is that it seems those with Adblock services activated will be worse off, as the option to skip the video will not be present for them. This can be a huge disadvantage considering some ads can run for multiple minutes. Those who want to skip videos will have to either white-list YouTube or disable Adblock services. And yes, it seems like these changes don’t only affect Adblock users, but also those who utilize similar software.

This is the site I found it

http://www.androidauthority.com/google-bypass-adbl...

Cheers,

Lou