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YouTube's Crackdown on Adblockers Makes Videos Unwatchable

gizmodo.com
submitted
a year ago
byjosephtotechnology

Summary

YouTube has been at war with adblockers for quite some time now. Its most recent defense strategy is to skip right to the end of the video you’re playing. This isn’t its first attempt at curbing adblocker on the platform.
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4 Comments

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kaiserseahorse
a year ago
They are just hellbent on killing one of the best places on the internet for a couple dollars huh?
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getthatmoneyyo
a year ago
Funny enough, they've decreased my YouTube usage with all of this
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iareunique
a year ago
Gotta grow that bottom line for the shareholders
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joesch
a year ago
This is going to be a futile battle. We've been waging this war for 30 years now and they haven't killed ad blockers yet. This does explain their desire to hamper them in Chrome