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YouTube warns it might make your viewing experience worse if you don't turn off your ad-blocker (www.businessinsider.com)
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YouTube warns it might make your viewing experience worse if you don't turn off your ad-blocker::YouTube has been cracking down on people using ad blockers. Now, a spokesperson says that using ad blockers could lead to "suboptimal viewing."

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[โ€“] lemann@lemmy.one 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Those ads would need to be unskippable, otherwise we could just pull the timestamps that the Skip button uses and sponsorblock will be all complete again ๐Ÿ‘Œ

[โ€“] n0xew@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Fair point! I wasn't thinking they would be skippable, but boy do I hope that I was wrong...

[โ€“] Azzu@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Even if they're not natively skippable, ads have to be indicated as such by law. Whatever indication they use can be detected and used to create blockers.