YouTube's adblock war is backfiring in the worst way possible 🤣
YouTube's adblock war is backfiring in the worst way possible 🤣
https://m.youtube.com/watch?si=b8gFTiAMR95D1x3E&v=_GARcKCaUfI&feature=youtu.be
Invidious link https://invidious.privacydev.net/watch?v=_GARcKCaUfI
His cited articles https://www.wired.com/story/youtubes-ad-blocker-crackdown-spurs-record-uninstalls
https://www.androidauthority.com/youtube-ad-block-installs-3382289
With YouTube cracking down on Adblockers two things are happening, people are finding out adblockers exist at all and people are moving to better adblockers that can still block YouTube ads. One example I can think of is Ublock Origin and their efforts to keep it working blocking ads on YouTube.
YouTube vs the world. Not sure what Google was expecting to happen.
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