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YouTube's ‘War’ on Adblockers Shows How Google Controls the Internet (www.404media.co)
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Google's anti-ad scripts are breaking browsers and privacy plugins. It could get worse because Google controls the ad market, Chrome, and the extension store.

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[–] 66 points 2 years ago* (3 children)

Honestly, I think it's great: if it annoys people enough, they will move out from Chrome and install Firefox (or one of its forks) with good extensions for blocking ads on YouTube. It seems to be the only solution to break the monopoly of Google on browsers. So go Google, I believe in you!

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  • [–] 27 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Nah, most people are dumb, they will just continue to complain and assume there is nothing they can do.

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  • [+] 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)
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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Youre giving them too much credit. Most will just accept fate and deal with the ads.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    It keeps breaking on FF too tho

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Nope it doesn't. Mine works without any modifications but I heard that it happens occasionally. There are some easy steps to set up FF to work again, should be easy to look up.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    I went through the instructions with the removing other extensions and resetting things and pasting filters etc. multiple times but it kept breaking, ended up switching to FreeTube. Maybe they've got it by now but I'm going to wait until it all shakes out more, too much hassle.

    Plus if you read the article, you can't tell how it works overall just because it works for you, because YouTube is treating different groups of users differently here.

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