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[Mental Outlaw] YouTube Accidentally Made Ad Blockers More Powerful

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[Mental Outlaw] YouTube Accidentally Made Ad Blockers More Powerful

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Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago

YouTube Accidentally Made Ad Blockers More Powerful

In this video I discuss how YouTube fighting ad blockers is actually making ad blocking extensions and browsers more powerful, and how there is a long history of things like this happening on the inte...

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I have some tech savvy friends who caved in a took a YouTube premium sub because they didn’t know the fix to refresh ublock rules.

So I think YouTube’s strategy is working, even if they are not completely blocking blockers they are still converting some blockers to paying users.

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