Comment on YouTube's plan backfires, people are installing better ad blockers

AMillionNames@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• Karyoplasma@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  xkcd.com/1053/

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  • registrert@lemmy.sambands.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Haha look at these people who doesn’t know everything in the world from birth!

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    • sensiblepuffin@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Tell me you misunderstood the comic without telling me.

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      • registrert@lemmy.sambands.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Tell me you don’t understand sarcasm by telling me in writing.

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  • AMillionNames@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Not really making fun of it, just genuinely curious. Are people still installing Adblock Plus? It has had an Acceptable Ads Comittee for over a decade now.

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    • Reddfugee42@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      You can’t be genuinely curious by asking a question answered in the source.

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    • Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I stopped using that when it stopped working. Is there a working version? I thought they got kiked off the app store for “interfering with internet data” or something.

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  • Duamerthrax@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    More like most people don’t have the patience to learn the difference between uBlock and UBlock Origin. Also, a lot of people just install Ad Block because they you tell them to install a ad blocker, they just install the one called AdBlock.

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• thesilverpig@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Adblock plus was the standard for so long until maybe 5 or so years ago when they were bought out or something and they were hinting at letting some ads in. I think only the very online people switched to uBlock Origin before Adblock Plus tanked itself. That is all from hazy memory but it wouldn’t surprise me that normies got recommended Adblock Plus and used it until it didn’t work right only to seek out better options now that youtube is serving them so many ads.

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  • AMillionNames@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    That has had an Acceptable Ads Committee for over a decade now. I’m surprised that YouTube Ads wouldn’t have been permitted on it.

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  • calypsopub@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Yup, as a normie can confirm

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