• CosmoNova@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    They started blocking users with advanced adblockers completely in some places. It’s expected they’ll roll out that policy in most countries. Prepare to either ditch Youtube completely, watch dozens of ads as well as sponsored segments every couple of minutes (because why would Google pay content creators who make them a huge pile of money by providing content for free adequately, right?) or pay hundreds of dollars a year. Even then they might start showing you some ads because why the hell not? Big tech stole the internet from us and now they’re banking in on it big time. Needlesly to say this is not a sustainable business model, but since when did that ever bother mega corporations?

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      1 year ago

      It’s a cat and mouse game, and history has proven that in this case adblockers will win. Or we’ll get ad blocker blocker blockers.

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        1 year ago

        Firefox is pretty much the only browser Google doesn’t own directly. I’m afraid all of the other browsers will soon malfunction on that front so we’ll have to see.

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      1 year ago

      Unless they put YouTube content behind a paywall there will always be ways to block ads.

      Probably that would be their future take, free 3 minutes of the video, if you want more… pay.

      And then will the era of pirating and downloading YouTube videos begin.