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YouTube has been spotted testing server-side ads, which could pose a problem to ad blockers.

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[–] blady_blah 158 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

I would rather pay an ad-block company a monthly subscription than give it to YouTube in blackmail. This will just be another salvo in a never ending war.

[–] glitchdx 30 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I used to pay for youtube premium. My logic being that I was using an adblocker anyway, and I wanted the content creators I watched to get some kind of revenue for my watchtime. Youtube stopped taking my money a while back, and I can't be bothered to figure out why. These days, there's so little content that I find interesting that I spend more time scrolling than I do actually watching videos. It's only a matter of time until I just stop regularly going to youtube.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I paid for it until they basically doubled the price.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 months ago

I paid for it before they removed Google Play Music. I was on one of the plans that was $8 for both Google Play Music and YouTube Red.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

Too Much engagement slop being pumped into the feed and you can't block offenders on teevee app...

WTF I lay for this. If I don't want to see some clown, I should be able to block.

I report them for misconduct and it seems to reduce the spam but they come back in few weeks amyway...

Like no I don't want linus, I don't want brownlee apple whore... Just stop.