Youtube goes to war with ad blockers - how companies die

    • somedaysoon@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Big corporations that are trying to force ads and otherwise squeeze their users are falling. The internet existed before these companies, and it will exist after them. Personally, I say, good riddance to them.

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    1 year ago

    I literally haven’t been impacted by this at all. Are they just going after one particular ad blocker?

  • bobthened@feddit.uk
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    1 year ago

    I’ll stop using ad block when YouTube stops making me watch an advert at the beginning of the video and then two unskippable ads one minute into the video.

  • Platomus@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    I swear, it’s like all large tech companies are trying to out stupid each other right now.

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    1 year ago

    I gotta admit I pay for premium. Like, I pay for all these different services like Netflix, hbo, prime, Spotify etc, but the one I use the most (by a lot!) is YouTube. I bought it most of all to not have ads on my iPhone. Now the creators gets payed, I never see ads anywhere, all is good.

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    1 year ago

    For anyone considering it, I highly recommend YouTube Premium. Comes with YouTube Music as well, which is a perfectly fine replacement for Spotify.