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Enshittification Continues: Discord to begin showing advertisements on it's free platform (archive.is)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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They supposedly can be disabled in settings- but we all know that won't last. They're going full Microsoft Skype mode and it's only a matter of time.

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[–] [S] 14 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

The way they sound like they're implementing ads, it's not going to be a simple banner or anything but rather a part of the UI that promotes some kind of streaming challenge. It's not likely to be blockable if they make the ads a base part of the container.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago

    If it's downloaded onto your machine, it can be blocked. It's impossible to prevent a dedicated enough community from blocking ads. YouTube hasn't even been able to keep users from doing it; they've had to resort to changing their platform (Chrome) to make it harder, but that just means people have to use other platforms.

    It's your machine, and you have admin rights on it. That means you control the data and display of that machine; ad block blocking is Quixotic at best, and neurotic at worst. Which YouTube has discovered.

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