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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...

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[-] thanatotus@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

If the advertisers start paying less, then Google will just increase the number of ads shown to the user. And playing content on more tabs won't even matter to them.

The issue is that they are a monopoly so they control and they can do whatever they want. The alternative is federated video services but those aren't matured yet.

this post was submitted on 30 Oct 2023
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