▲ 277 ▼ YouTube is cracking down on consumers’ favorite loophole - Adblockers (www.thestreet.com) submitted 2 years ago by L4s@lemmy.world [M, B] to c/technology@lemmy.world 88 comments fedilink hide all child comments YouTube is cracking down on consumers’ favorite loophole - Adblockers::undefined
[–] bappity@lemmy.world 27 points 2 years ago (1 child) YouTube is fighting a losing battle permalink fedilink source hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] LetMeEatCake@lemm.ee 25 points 2 years ago That really depends on what their goal is. From a business perspective it's not worth fighting to eliminate 100% of ad block uses. The investment is too high. But if they can eliminate 50% or 70% or 90% of ad block uses with youtube? That could be worth the effort for them. If they can "win" for Chrome and make it a bit annoying for Firefox that would likely be enough for Google to declare it a huge success. People willing to really dig all the way in to get a solution they desire are not the norm. Google can be OK with the 1% of us out there as long as we aren't also making it possible for another huge chunk of people to piggyback off it effortlessly. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] LetMeEatCake@lemm.ee 25 points 2 years ago That really depends on what their goal is. From a business perspective it's not worth fighting to eliminate 100% of ad block uses. The investment is too high. But if they can eliminate 50% or 70% or 90% of ad block uses with youtube? That could be worth the effort for them. If they can "win" for Chrome and make it a bit annoying for Firefox that would likely be enough for Google to declare it a huge success. People willing to really dig all the way in to get a solution they desire are not the norm. Google can be OK with the 1% of us out there as long as we aren't also making it possible for another huge chunk of people to piggyback off it effortlessly. permalink fedilink source parent