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Google admits it's making YouTube worse for ad block users (www.theregister.com)
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[โ€“] ferralcat@monyet.cc 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

But their software is just blocking based on browser. Their message to you is not "don't use an ad blocker". It's "use chrome and you won't have this problem". Theyre literally just hoping to abuse their position as a monopoly in video to try and strengthen their monopoly on browsers.

[โ€“] Perhyte@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Is that why I haven't had any problems? I thought it was either Google A/B testing again or my ad blocker updating often enough to keep up, but I do have a user-agent changer installed in Firefox that's configured to tell YouTube I'm on Chrome...