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YouTube is getting serious about blocking ad blockers (www.theverge.com)
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YouTube is getting serious about blocking ad blockers::YouTube is cracking down on ad blockers. In a statement to The Verge, YouTube’s Christopher Lawton says the company has launched a “global effort” to urge people to allow ads on the platform.

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[–] Diabolo96@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I understand. I am sure that most, if not all people who care about privacy already use Firefox. We need to help regular users to hope into Firefox. These people tend to know almost nothing about computers and a site that doesn't work is Firefox not working.

[–] kittenzrulz123@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah but Firefox uses non private defaults like Google as the default search engine

[–] Diabolo96@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

We need to rid chrome of its monopoly first. Google is a privacy nightmare but it's only because of chrome hegemony over the browser ecosystem that they are able to forcibly DRM the web and castrate adblockers.