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Comment on Google says adblockers caused YouTube views count to drop - this is what adblockers told us really happened

9488fcea02a9@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

Even on a computer without ad blocker (work laptop, chrome browser)

the number of times i say “nah i don’t need to see that” as soon as thes annoying ads comes up before the video…

The decline probably has very little to do with ad blockers.

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b34k@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
The decline was very sudden, almost instantaneous, and can be traced back to the exact date a block list, used by most major desktop ad blockers, added the YouTube View Counter API endpoint to their list.

But sure… nothing to do with ad blockers.

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masterofn001@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
Exactly.

If I am forced to see ads, especially intrusive or page filling ones, I will not continue.

I watched lots of YouTube in the past.

When they started inserting ads into the videos (not channel sponsored stuff), the camel started getting weak.

When they started requiring sign-ins or blocking access when using a proxy that was the straw.

I don’t use YouTube anymore.

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