Comment on Privacy advocate challenges YouTube's ad blocking detection
yukichigai@kbin.social 8 months agoThat would be easy to challenge under the same reasoning as what's in the article, not to mention various anti-trust laws and ones covering anti-competitive business practices.
Doesn't mean it's guaranteed to stop them, but it's definitely not going to be as easy as them flipping a few switches and saying "watch ads on our browser with no addons or GTFO".
Sheeple@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Most importantly, such a move would kill YouTube as a platform. Removing other browsers from the picture would cut off a majority of their viewers
echo64@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Safari and chrome have the Web drm already. It’s really just Firefox that gets cut off.