{"id":176635,"date":"2023-11-24T06:22:53","date_gmt":"2023-11-24T12:22:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/youtube-threatens-to-become-even-more-horrendous-if-you-have-an-ad-blocker"},"modified":"2023-11-24T06:22:53","modified_gmt":"2023-11-24T12:22:53","slug":"youtube-threatens-to-become-even-more-horrendous-if-you-have-an-ad-blocker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/youtube-threatens-to-become-even-more-horrendous-if-you-have-an-ad-blocker","title":{"rendered":"YouTube Threatens to Become Even More Horrendous If You Have an Ad Blocker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/youtube-threatens-to-become-even-more-horrendous-if-you-have-an-sad-blocker2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>YouTube has had it with you blocking the ads on its platform \u2014 and it\u2019s willing to make the experience as miserable as possible until you give up.<\/p>\n<p>As <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/youtube-warns-worse-viewing-experience-ad-blocker-2023-11\" class=\"\"><em>Business Insider<\/em> reports<\/a>, the company is encouraging viewers to turn off their ad blockers in their browsers or subscribe to YouTube Premium, which costs a whopping $13.99 a month, by degrading the experience of using the site.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAds are a vital lifeline for our creators that helps them run and grow their businesses,\u201d a spokesperson told <em>Insider<\/em>. \u201cThat\u2019s why the use of ad blockers violates YouTube\u2019s Terms of Service.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>YouTube has had it with you blocking the ads on its platform \u2014 and it\u2019s willing to make the experience as miserable as possible until you give up. As Business Insider reports, the company is encouraging viewers to turn off their ad blockers in their browsers or subscribe to YouTube Premium, which costs a whopping [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-176635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176635\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}