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Youtube goes to war with ad blockers - how companies die

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (3 children)

The internet is falling apart

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

The internet is dead. Long live the internet!

[–] Desistance 2 points 1 year ago

Nothing lasts forever. YouTube will eventually give way for something else.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I’ll stop using ad block when YouTube stops making me watch an advert at the beginning of the video and then two unskippable ads one minute into the video.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I literally haven't been impacted by this at all. Are they just going after one particular ad blocker?

[–] very_well_lost 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It seems like they're either rolling this out slowly, or this is just a small-scale test only affecting a small percentage of the user base.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Could be AB testing I suppose.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

I swear, it's like all large tech companies are trying to out stupid each other right now.

[–] EqMinMax 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Still no ads, adblocker works in youtube opened in firefox

[–] YoBuckStopsHere 2 points 1 year ago

Good luck with that.

[–] nodel -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I gotta admit I pay for premium. Like, I pay for all these different services like Netflix, hbo, prime, Spotify etc, but the one I use the most (by a lot!) is YouTube. I bought it most of all to not have ads on my iPhone. Now the creators gets payed, I never see ads anywhere, all is good.

[–] FractalAsymmetry 1 points 1 year ago

I wouldn't mind paying for it either, but it's not available in my country. So, until it is, uBlock all the way.

[–] yabai -4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

For anyone considering it, I highly recommend YouTube Premium. Comes with YouTube Music as well, which is a perfectly fine replacement for Spotify.

[–] pizzatime 4 points 1 year ago

I'll stick to ad blockers and not give the megacorp any money. thanks for the rec though