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YouTube is now fully blocking ad blockers around the world (9to5google.com)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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cross-posted from: https://lemdro.id/post/2787773 (!google@lemdro.id)

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[–] 54 points 2 years ago (7 children)

Yeah, all Google accomplished with this bullshit was finally getting me to switch from Chrome to Firefox as my main browser on desktop.

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  • [–] 22 points 2 years ago (6 children)

    Pretty much, also encouraged me to download uBlock, and now I see how many items it blocks from pages like YouTube. Spoiler: It’s a lot.

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  • [–] 12 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    Right?

    I have two tabs open...one is a site that is overtly and actively promoting products to me, with literal links to retailers where I can buy the stuff they're promoting...the other is YouTube.

    The promotional site's uBlock counter is at 4.

    YouTube's is at...139.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    Leave that YouTube tab open open for a day and see how many thousands of items uBlock has blocked.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    I see absolutely insane numbers on Google docs, 10000+ blocked. My total per year is now over 5 million. A lot more intense than a few years ago, where it took multiple years to reach 3 million.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago*

    Holy shit, I have multiple tabs open and have only been using Firefox as my default browser for about 1.5 3-months (August 9th). Each YouTube tab has over 10k blocks and lifetime blocks since installation is over 4.1 million!

    Edit: found the document I made in Obsidian to plan my move from Brave to Firefox and the created data is August 9th.

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