YouTube tries to kill ad blockers in push for ad dollars, Premium subs

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• kakes@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  …is this still “news”?

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  • ackzsel@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    No but Google has ways to bump headlines with their name in it : )

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• spacecowboy@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  This has been going on for ages already, why do people keep posting this crap

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  • LoafyLemon@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It's been a month, certainly not ages, unless you're an infant.

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    • spacecowboy@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      A month in the modern media climate is a really long time when it comes to a “story”. News moves fast.

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    • rifugee@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      This article was written just last week and it offers no new information. You have to admit that it is late to the party. Is the reporter going to next post an article reporting that there is fighting in Israel?

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• mateomaui@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Not surprising that the Verge staffer doesn’t seem to know how to set up a blocker.

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  • ron@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    if you can’t understand that they are only being informative it’s not my problem.

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    • mateomaui@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Not sure what your idiot response is on about, but I was referring to this

      for one Verge staffer, YouTube now fully blocks them nearly every time

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• Strit@lemmy.linuxuserspace.show ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I’ve seen this happen, but it’s only sometimes.

  So maybe my adblocker is updating to work around this block of adblocking somehow.

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  • leo@lemmy.linuxuserspace.show ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Supposedly Firefox + uBlock Origin will get past the block more often than not. I don’t use Youtube enough to give any meaningful info on it, though.

    Google is apparently fuzzing who this affects.

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• NightOwl@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I figured people using ad blockers are in the minority and most don’t even know how to install it, so mainstream users are either fine with ads or pay for premium.

  And then those who installed Adblocker themselves trend towards being more willing to tinker, so using ublock and updating or pushed to accountless options like freetube and newpipe.

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