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Talos to Technology@beehaw.orgEnglish • 2 years ago

YouTube tests blocking videos unless you disable ad blockers

www.bleepingcomputer.com

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YouTube tests blocking videos unless you disable ad blockers

www.bleepingcomputer.com

Talos to Technology@beehaw.orgEnglish • 2 years ago
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YouTube is running an experiment asking some users to disable their ad blockers or pay for a premium subscription, or they will not be allowed to watch videos.
  • @DarkGamer@beehaw.org
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    15•2 years ago

    This will lead to an increase of ad-blocker-blocker-blocker development.

    • @PelicanPersuader@beehaw.org
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      6•2 years ago

      The adblocking arms race escalates further!

    • @dissonant@lemmy.world
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      5•2 years ago

      yo dawg I heard you like blockers

    • @SmugBedBug@lemmy.iswhereits.at
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      3•2 years ago

      Came here to say this as well. It’s a game of cat and mouse.

    • @nodiet@feddit.de
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      2•2 years ago

      They already exist and are quite effective, I wonder whether YouTube is able to detect those too

      • @DarkGamer@beehaw.org
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        4•2 years ago

        So you’re saying we need an ad-blocker-blocker-blocker-blocker-blocker.

      • @ultraHQ@beehaw.org
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        0•2 years ago

        Wait really? Is there a recommended extension for this?

        • @nodiet@feddit.de
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          2•2 years ago

          There is Nanodefender for Firefox. Just be aware that there are different versions of this for Firefox and chome but those will actually track you. The original developer sold their code to people with bad intentions, this is a fork.

    • @SilentStorms@lemmy.fmhy.ml
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      2•2 years ago

      It’ll happen. I just hope that it will just become semi-diffucult to do it, so that non-technical people give in so Google is happy, then the 0.1% of us can enjoy our adblocked youtube.

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