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[-] legalfinding@lemmynsfw.com 3 points 1 year ago

They started blocking people who use ad blockers from watching videos if they don't disable it on YouTube. I think they just started doing it in the last few weeks

[-] eek2121@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I have had no issues. Even if they did end up successfully blocking (not likely) the videos are accessible via 3rd party sites/clients. I don’t see Google ever being able to successfully block users without adding a login requirement, and even then…

[-] markovianparallax@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I think what people who are commenting here aren't getting is that they're only doing it to a percent of accounts and not ALL accounts.

this post was submitted on 20 Jul 2023
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