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Either way, AdBlock just became a little less useful to those looking to banish all forms of advertising from their digital screens.

The only way to stop this from happening is by either uninstalling the ad-blocking extension or by whitelisting YouTube within the extension’s settings. It’s pretty clever, but has clearly upset a number of ad-haters. Essentially, Google has altered the programming to make ad-blockers see the ‘Skip’ option as the ad, removing that instead of the actual commercial. It’s worth noting, Google’s workaround isn’t exclusive to AdBlock, but all similar extensions used to blocked ads on YouTube. In short: It’s essentially forcing users to watch entire advertisements before YouTube videos. With Google’s fix on YouTube in Chrome, that option no longer appears. As reported by NeoWin, it seems Google has found a way to make the ‘skip ad’ option invisible to users with AdBlock installed.

Normally, long advertisements give users the option to skip after five seconds or so. This includes the ads shown before and during video playback on YouTube… That’s seemingly what it’s done with AdBlock Plus, a relatively well-known Chrome extension used to block out ads across the internet. So, when a product comes along to threaten that major revenue stream, it has to find ways to combat it. It’s no secret that Google makes the majority of its money from advertising revenue, and has done for a very long time.