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Comment on Do you feel, as I do, that this adblocker ban by Youtube will harm all of Alphabet's companies? [discussion]

Jamie@jamie.moe ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

For as long as people have complained about YouTube ads even before they started the crackdown, I don’t think it’ll matter.

Personally, I bit the bullet and got Premium last year because I didn’t feel like maintaining a DNS solution on my wifi and like using my TV for it. YouTube is basically the main form of “TV” that I watch when I’m in a couch potato mood. Most actual TV shows that come out aren’t interesting to me.

I’m not really advocating everyone just go buy premium. Even in my case I’m not jumping up and down to give Google my money by any means. But for my situation it’s an expense that I justify for myself

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kent_eh@lemmy.ca ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

Tons of people didn’t block them even before the option went away.

Excellent point.

Those of us that adblock are probably a single digit percent of their total traffic.

They just don’t want that to increase.

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hellequin67@lemm.ee ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
YT Premium is not available in my location and, as yet, adblock still working fine.

When they catch up with my location I’ll use either revanced or LibreTube.

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Renacles@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Just use smarttube

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