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YouTube warns it might make your viewing experience worse if you don't turn off your ad-blocker
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this post was submitted on 22 Nov 2023
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Wonder how much money they've wasted trying to block the blockers
It's even more weird all that invested time into people who are going to find ways to block them either way, instead of focusing on their userbase that doesn't use them. Seems like they are rummaging through the couch cushions for pennies at this rate.
Since this whole debacle started, they've just made ad blockers more prevalent to people who didn't know about them. Ad blocker use is actually up now compared to when they started making this a big deal. So, in a way, they actually screwed themselves.
Ah, the good ol' Streisand effect.
Considering they can use this knowledge to apply it to the entire Google ecosystem, I'd say they aren't wasting money in learning about new ways to fuck us over.