YouTube It introduced advertising on its platform several years ago, so that in every video we play, at least 15 or 30 seconds of an advertisement appear, which can be longer depending on the length of the video.

To prevent your videos from being interrupted, Users have been experimenting with ad blockers in their browsers that would prevent these commercials from appearing. However, YouTube has adopted this tactic and will now take steps to force users to watch the ads as they are one of the main sources of revenue.

According to YouTube it is use a ad blocker or adblocker is a violation of their terms of serviceand asks users to stop using them or pay for YouTube’s premium service, which would offset their revenue by not showing ads.

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What the platform does is your videos will take longer to load in browsers with an adblocker installed. Content may take up to 15 seconds longer to load than without an ad blocker.

This isn’t the only way YouTube discourages its users from blocking its ads. Also prevents them from putting the screen in cinema mode or full screenso every time they want to choose one of these options, they have to refresh the entire page, and so again the video takes a while to load.

Not all users are affected by these measures, as it appears that YouTube is implementing these restrictions by region and area.

The portal 9to5Google tested the lag hypothesis on YouTube by loading their videos with an ad blocker.

“Videos save incredibly slowly, previews refuse to load properly, and it’s impossible to get into theater or full screen mode without refreshing the website. This is mainly due to a artificial timeout written into YouTube code to act as a slow internet connection,” the website explains.

This is how YouTube forces its users to watch all of its ads in full, or pay around $10 per month for the Premium service. (JO)