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YouTube's plan backfires, people are installing better ad blockers (www.androidauthority.com)

submitted 1 year ago by ijeff@lemdro.id to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[-] Draegur@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

but i saw another article saying that adblocker usage dropped by like ... meh i dunno 80% or some awful figure that I didn't want to believe.

i'd rather live in the version of the world where this one is true, that nobody is installing adblockers, but i know better (sometimes) than to simply succumb to confirmation bias...

if youtube were smart though, it'd make ads less shitty, intrusive, and obnoxious.

[-] ijeff@lemdro.id 3 points 1 year ago

I saw that one from Wired but didn't post it because the body itself referenced increased installations of some adblockers. The title seemed like a strange conclusion to draw from it all.

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[-] baltakatei@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 year ago

Next logical step is to modify the uploaded video itself to contain ads around the video frame or on automatically detected clear surfaces in the video.

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[-] EmperorHenry@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

ADGUARD FOR DESKTOP! LOAD IT WITH ANTI-ADBLOCK KILLER!

ADNAUSEAM!

Sorry. I have Tourette's syndrome. I can't help but scream the names of random software.

YOUTUBE SEARCH! COBRA EFFECT ADBLOCKERS!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIHi9yH6UB0

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