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YouTube is intensifying efforts to combat adblockers, including blocking video playback and warning users of potential account suspension.
Increased ads on YouTube have driven many users to adblockers, hurting both YouTube’s ad revenue and content creators reliant on ad-based income.
Despite these measures, many users are leaving YouTube or finding workarounds, leading creators to seek alternative revenue streams off-platform.

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[-] chakan2@lemmy.world 15 points 3 months ago

Yea...I'm old enough to remember when that was the content that paid for the platform. Putting an ad on top of that is fucking soulless vampic greed.

[-] seaQueue@lemmy.world 11 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Welcome to the new Google. It's rent seeking all the way down.

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