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YouTube tests blocking videos unless you disable ad blockers
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this post was submitted on 13 Jun 2023
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YouTube is going to have a lot of trouble enforcing this. Lots and lots of people out there are going to be immediately at work finding ways around this limitation.
We'll make some plugin that downloads the ad and tells Google it was "totally watched and stuff".
"Say the product name into the mic to continue viewing the video"
Hah, that'll be fun on my desktop... I don't even have a microphone.
Oh God!
You might be thinking it's a joke but it's real
https://www.techradar.com/news/sony-patent-would-have-you-yell-at-your-tv-to-skip-commercials
That's pretty funny. I'd watch a movie where they show this as normalized in the future.