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Google admits it's making YouTube worse for ad block users (www.theregister.com)

submitted 11 months ago by TangledHyphae@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] skhayfa@lemmy.world 16 points 11 months ago

The CEO said shareholders needs to be appeased by making new sacrifice

[–] zcd@lemmy.ca 15 points 11 months ago

Fuck YouTube

[–] TimewornTraveler@lemm.ee 13 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Are they making it worse than ads make it?

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[–] Toes@ani.social 12 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

My biggest problem with the ads is that it's louder than the thing I'm watching, oftentimes a lot.

They are sometimes an hour long and I gotta press the skip ad button with my nose cause it'll take me ten minutes or more to clean up.

I have no love for the automatic gadgets where you can speak your commands. They get suggested by my coworkers quite a bit.

They want too much for what is ultimately hours of people playing chess.

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[–] nix@merv.news 13 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Theyre also blatant scams. Whenever I accidentally open youtube on my phone when clicking a link the ad is literally claims of free money using ai voices of celebrities, “cures” for blindness that are selling watered down bleach, and other scams

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[–] JoShmoe@lemmy.zip 10 points 11 months ago

Despite their wasted efforts, it just doesn’t matter. Circumventing all this is still too easy. Only the impatient are doomed.

[–] c0mbatbag3l@lemmy.world 8 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Still using Vivaldi with only the built-in ad blocking, still noticing no ads, still noticing zero performance issues.

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[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 8 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

It doesn't seem to be working for me. I've never been blocked for using ad blockers. It's still the same speed it's always been. I have all these work arounds just waiting to be used that I haven't even had to actually try.

Are they only doing this shit to like 12 people who write articles about it? Why wouldn't it be globally done all at once for everyone?

[–] twack@lemmy.world 12 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Yes, they are rolling these changes out in stages to make it harder for the internet to collectively address the issue.

Trust me, you will get hit eventually.

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