There's already a workaround (found, again, here), but I figured I would use this opportunity to tell people that projects like Piped and Invidious exist, which both allow you to watch YouTube without loading their ads, with improved Privacy and (in the case of Piped) even Geoblocking-Circumvention and SponsorBlock out of the box.

They're both great tools, and using something like LibRedirect you can even automatically go to Piped or Invidious when clicking/opening a YouTube link (and more).

Both don't load ads, but unless changed in the settings Individous may still make connections to Google/YouTube to load the video(s) themselves.

Bit of a shameless plug for these projects, but I figured this is a really good time to show these projects as I often see people asking what they are in threads on here

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[–] code@lemmy.world 29 points 2 years ago (3 children)

How long until Google says "fuck it" and outright starts banning adblock users? Considering how deep a lot of people are into the Google ecosystem, this is potentially devastating. Imagine losing access to you email, photos, etc., with no way to appeal. Good luck if you want to actually speak to anyone human at Google.

[–] BaardFigur@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago

I'm already in the process of decoupling from gmail for this exact reason.

I've decoupled the most important things, but there's just so much stuff that is still using my gmail.

[–] ilikekeyboards@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Losing access to your banks. Banks in England send you an email link to confirm your access.

[–] Usul_00_@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Set u a forward from the Gmail address to the new one, and maintain the account at least minimally. As a reference, I have an account created at least 14 years ago still forwarding email. Should be enough time to change the profiles.

[–] shneancy@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

in case of a bank Im sure you can just walk to a physical office and get your account linked to another email

things will get hard with things like steam

[–] ilikekeyboards@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

În uk there's many online only banks

[–] darkkite@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

unlikely especially if they're paying for other services. they'll most likely prevent playback

[–] code@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

There's plenty of stories online like this one . It's all automated and if it decides you're bad, you're out. No questions asked, no appeals.

~~Google~~ search it up and you'll find many more.