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[–] CosmoNova@lemmy.world 30 points 1 year ago (4 children)

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?

[–] sylverstream@lemmy.nz 47 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] CosmoNova@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] TwilightVulpine@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Firefox is going to see a lot of new users soon then.

[–] gian@lemmy.grys.it 7 points 1 year ago

Prepare to either ditch Youtube completely

Your terms are acceptable...

[–] daniskarma@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 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.

[–] automodbeta@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Oh no my dns provider broke and it cant resolve the ad servers. Pihole for the win

[–] newIdentity@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 year ago

Just that the ads and videos come from the same domain

[–] pfannkuchen_gesicht@lemmy.one 4 points 1 year ago

I never got pihole to reliably block yt ads...