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Talos to Technology@beehaw.orgEnglish • 2 years ago

YouTube tests blocking videos unless you disable ad blockers

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YouTube tests blocking videos unless you disable ad blockers

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Talos to Technology@beehaw.orgEnglish • 2 years ago
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YouTube is running an experiment asking some users to disable their ad blockers or pay for a premium subscription, or they will not be allowed to watch videos.
  • @Wumbologist@lemmy.one
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    28•2 years ago

    Hopefully they aren’t successful like Twitch was at killing adblockers. I stopped watching twitch after they broke them. The web just wants you to pay for a million subscriptions nowadays. Meanwhile those subscriptions continue to climb in price.

    • @arin@lemmy.world
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      8•2 years ago

      I have an adbocker for twitch, it usually works, sometimes twitch can still shove an ad through, but when twitch does show an ad I just close the stream and do something else

    • @noodlejetski@beehaw.org
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      7•2 years ago

      Alternate Player for Twitch still doesn’t let any ads through https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/twitch_5/

    • @hemphock@beehaw.org
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      4•2 years ago

      my ublock origin works ok for twitch, although i basically only watch replays. maybe its different live

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