wow just wow while i can't say i didn't see this one coming but it always amazes me where greed could lead someone
The back and forth between YouTube and the adblock developers ought to get interesting.
This seems somewhat intentionally coordinated, so that the squeeze everyone into submission.
It is coordinated but also driven by purely financial factors that changed over the last year. Interests are rising and suddenly those tech companies can't just live by growth alone, they have to find ways to be profitable.
If in the future they make it completely impossible to use ad blockers I'll just stop actively using YouTube. I hope a good enough alternative comes around.
I've heard it is quite difficult to make one.
I'm not so sure that this is anything to worry about. It's just another step in the game of cat and mouse. Is it annoying? Of course! But if/when it goes mainstream, ad blockers are just going to push updates that make it possible to block the ad block blocker. uBlock Origin does a really good job at blocking ad block blockers on most sites.
Internet doing a race to the bottom.
Having to watch ads isn't free. It costs me my time and it's limited.
I think ublock already got around this no? I have had 0 issues
They haven't rolled it out to more than a small percentage of users.
Greed? I mean they are not a charity and ads pay for the service. Don't get me wrong I use ad block but to call it greed..
I will still use invidious while having muy subscriptions saved as RSS feeds so this change will go over my head
Don’t worry too much guys this will be circumvented. It’s just a cat and mouse game, but the cat is blind.
Still waiting for ISPs to change their model ever since “net neutrality” was abolished. With all of this shit with YouTube, Twitter, and Reddit coming down the pipe it really does feel there has been a global change in how corporations are squeezing their customers. I am guessing ISPs are waiting for the bulk of services to change their model before they sweep in with their greed. It’s coming.
YouTubeDL + Plex
Not so crazy anymore.
I really don't think it's greed. Can't blame em for trying to win the cat/mouse game of adblocking. I'm sure it's not the end of the world, and new ways to circumvent this will show up.
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