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YouTube is now blocking Ad Blockers – So I just make ads run 16x faster (old.reddit.com)

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[–] Diabolo96@lemmy.dbzer0.com 24 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

They can win by making videos only accessible via account and aggressively banning adblock users. It will hurt it at first but people would rather accept it instead of finding a replacement. I expect this to happen in a few years.

[–] xan1242@lemmy.ml 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Nothing can beat a VCR with an ad skipper.

And I am not afraid to use it.