India, June 7 -- Ad blockers mustn't flourish - at least according to YouTube. The Alphabet-owned video platform has been cracking down on viewers who continue to use ad blockers on its site, all because they must submit to the demands of major tech companies eager for your money.

If you have an ad blocker extension turned on, YouTube no longer allows playback until you disable it. In its current iteration, YouTube is mostly successful in ensuring that free users can't get away with using ad blockers.

Now, the company has added another layer of defence against ad blockers. According to many Reddit users, popular workarounds like uBlock Origin and AdBlock are no longer effective against YouTube ads. That means users are now seeing warnin...