YouTube will make life more difficult for those who are still placing ad templates

As we told you, Google targeted its users Youtube Who use ad-blocking plug-ins in their browser or other ways to avoid ads on the video platform. For some time, the American giant tried different approaches, starting with a strict message that blocking ads conflicts with the rules for using the service.

Now, as conveyed 9to5Google, The company began testing a new method Which doesn't leave much room. especially, YouTube has become almost ineffective If something is found that prevents ads from running.

In particular, the Reddit community discovered that Google had set one up A mechanism that simulates a slow connection experience. This makes videos loading very slow, and using every aspect of the platform suffers from significant lags and stutters. 9to5Google put these claims to the test, and according to their research, video buffering was actually taking a long time, previews rarely loaded, and Theater Mode or Full Screen Mode wouldn't activate unless the tab was refreshed.

By making the experience too slow, Google hopes to attract more users to YouTube Premium, its subscription package that disables ads, or removes their ad blocker.