Youtube’s Anti-adblock and uBlock Origin::Recently, YouTube has been ramping up its anti-adblock effort, and I’ve been watching this closely due to personal interest. This blog post is where I write down what I know. Some Background Here’s…

  • 4grams@awful.systems
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    1 year ago

    they also overestimate their importance to the same crowd. I mean, I use youtube a lot but as soon as I’m unable to without my adblocker in place, I’m done with the site. Already cut out several other sites that have done similar things; YouTube is big, but it’s not the only time waster in town.

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      1 year ago

      Sadly this is what they want. Anyone not giving them money directly through subscription fees or indirectly through advertisers they view as dead weight and want to buck to reduce operating costs. Rather than fix their service model, they prefer to squeeze what ever money they can out of people and dump them for not being profitable enough.