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Youtube goes to war with ad blockers - how companies die (www.youtube.com)

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 years ago (3 children)

The internet is falling apart

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

The internet is dead. Long live the internet!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Nothing lasts forever. YouTube will eventually give way for something else.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

I’ll stop using ad block when YouTube stops making me watch an advert at the beginning of the video and then two unskippable ads one minute into the video.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I literally haven't been impacted by this at all. Are they just going after one particular ad blocker?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It seems like they're either rolling this out slowly, or this is just a small-scale test only affecting a small percentage of the user base.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

Could be AB testing I suppose.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago

I swear, it's like all large tech companies are trying to out stupid each other right now.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Good luck with that.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Still no ads, adblocker works in youtube opened in firefox

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I gotta admit I pay for premium. Like, I pay for all these different services like Netflix, hbo, prime, Spotify etc, but the one I use the most (by a lot!) is YouTube. I bought it most of all to not have ads on my iPhone. Now the creators gets payed, I never see ads anywhere, all is good.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

I wouldn't mind paying for it either, but it's not available in my country. So, until it is, uBlock all the way.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

For anyone considering it, I highly recommend YouTube Premium. Comes with YouTube Music as well, which is a perfectly fine replacement for Spotify.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

I'll stick to ad blockers and not give the megacorp any money. thanks for the rec though