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[pisskop]

Youtube put up the 'you have adblock' for me, but it was after I opened a video in a new window.

turning off the adblockers (2) I do use get it up again.  Still no ads since I have Noscript

[martinuzz]

The Canal tunnel has flooded. No, not the ocean. Heavy rainfall in the London area.
The rail tracks are submerged, all Eurostar trains are cancelled.

[Akura]

My throat problems, which I've self-diagnosed as GERD, are getting to the point where it's very difficult to find food I can really eat. Not to mention, even if I can eat it, I can't eat much at one time. After hearing greek yoghurt was good for GERD, I tried one of those ones with the extra stuff in a separate cup you flip into the yogurt. Before I could even finish, I was hurling it all back up.

Between this and my bowel problems, my daily calorie intake is probably less than 1000, and I'm lucky if I get 3 hours of rough sleep. I don't see my GI specialist until Tuesday.

[ChairmanPoo]

Greek yogurt is fatty. Sounds like a poor choice for GERD, fatty food makes it more likely

[Loud Whispers]

The Canal tunnel has flooded. No, not the ocean. Heavy rainfall in the London area.
The rail tracks are submerged, all Eurostar trains are cancelled.

Shitter's clogged, Europe closed until further notice

[scriver]

The Canal tunnel has flooded. No, not the ocean. Heavy rainfall in the London area.
The rail tracks are submerged, all Eurostar trains are cancelled.

My biggest fear has come true and it's from rainfall, not the ocean? I did not see this coming

[Akura]

Adding oatmeal to the things I cannot eat without tasting it twice. That upsets me, partly because I've consistently read that it's a safe food for GERD, and partly because I just bought a bunch of it.

[Great Order]

Youtube put up the 'you have adblock' for me, but it was after I opened a video in a new window.

turning off the adblockers (2) I do use get it up again.  Still no ads since I have Noscript

In my experience with ublock it just means I need to go into the menu and either update or purge the cache and redownload them. Youtube's never pulled it up right after I've done that.

[Lord Shonus]

Ublock and Youtube are in an arms race at the moment, and it takes some time for ublock to respond to Youtube's improved detection script.

[Eric Blank]

Ive been noticing on my laptop, using firefox, that youtube tabs will become unresponsive after a few hours, for example if i leave them open overnight. If I close the tab and ope a new one, just copy over the URL if I want to, it will resume normal function. Rarely, I'll get an ad if I start firefox after a crash and open previous tabs, and youtube happens to be the one that was open. I think that's from it not loading the plugins quick enough.

Honestly the whole issue could be avoided if ads werent so intrusive and advertisers could be trusted not to shill out malware and trackers with their ads.

[IncompetentFortressMaker]

Honestly the whole issue could be avoided if ads werent so intrusive and advertisers could be trusted not to shill out malware and trackers with their ads.

I actually saw a video on YouTube (although I forget who uploaded it) wherein the speaker echoed that sentiment, remarking that although they personally didn't mind ads, they understood why people would use adblockers and even said it could be necessary for safety because of scams and the like - and, thus, they held no sympathy for YouTube because if YouTube had bothered to implement even basic ways of filtering out scam ads and similar things, it wouldn't be in trouble (the speaker held that YouTube is losing what they called a war with adblockers).
Note that all of this is paraphrasing, since I saw it a while ago.

Also: does YouTube claim that adblockers are against its terms of service? If so, they are not explicitly against its terms of service.

Permissions and Restrictions
You may access and use the Service as made available to you, as long as you comply with this Agreement and applicable law. You may view or listen to Content for your personal, non-commercial use. You may also show YouTube videos through the embeddable YouTube player.

The following restrictions apply to your use of the Service. You are not allowed to:
[subsection 1 not shown]
2. circumvent, disable, fraudulently engage with, or otherwise interfere with any part of the Service (or attempt to do any of these things), including security-related features or features that (a) prevent or restrict the copying or other use of Content or (b) limit the use of the Service or Content;
[subsections 3 through 10 not shown]

Subsection 2 here could potentially be interpreted to mean that adblockers would be implicitly against the terms of service (by accusing them of interfering with the service itself), but if that's the line they're using, they should really be a lot more clear about it before expecting people to disable adblockers.

[pisskop]

yes. They do state that it is explicitly against the TOS

[IncompetentFortressMaker]

In the don't-use-adblockers popup? In the actual terms of service document I could not find anything explicitly forbidding adblockers, though as I noted, it could be implicitly against the terms of service.

[klefenz]

I sometimes wonder, do ads really work? As do they acrually boost sales? Is their effectiveness being measured? Or are advertising companies just selling their ad campaings to the advertised companies and they buy them because they're run by old out-of-touch executives? I suspect the only thing really being marketed are the ads themselves.

[pisskop]

most of the ad in Facebook are probably more like fishing Wales than traditional adverts

They're looking for the one guy in 1000 who's gonna dump 100 bucks in