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ijeff@lemdro.id to Technology@beehaw.orgEnglish · 2 years ago

YouTube is now fully blocking ad blockers around the world

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YouTube is now fully blocking ad blockers around the world

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ijeff@lemdro.id to Technology@beehaw.orgEnglish · 2 years ago
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Since May, YouTube has ramped up its block of ad blockers and the company has now fully launched this policy worldwide...

cross-posted from: https://lemdro.id/post/2787773 ([email protected])

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    Remember YouTube before people started doing ad-like thumbnails, and radio voices?

    Like …the top channels were normal people.

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      I miss that so much!

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      Someone like FRED was on top at one point. Which is insane looking back on it. All it took was running around being obnoxious with a high pitched voice to be the largest channel on YouTube back then.

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      Use DeArrow and/or ignore the ““algorithm”” fed feeds.

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        Piped is good for that, too.

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