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YouTube tests blocking videos unless you disable ad blockers (www.bleepingcomputer.com)

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Translation: YT tests randomly pissing off users until they get fed up and leave for another site. if a site tells me I can't partake of their content with my adblocker engaged, I simply find my fix elsewhere.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

I see a lot of this, but to youtube, the value is with users that don't use ad blockers. If the share that use ad blockers leave, youtube will just lose less money. Sure Google wont be able to mine as much data on you, but I would go on and say the money this brings is insignificant if they can never show you ads.

YouTube does not care about the lurkers that use ad blockers, they don't contribute to the platform and they don't generate money as well. They would be way better off with us off the platform. I don't want this to happen but I can clearly see this coming since video streaming is expensive even for a giant like Youtube