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Google blames ad blockers for crashing YouTube view counts (www.techradar.com)

submitted 20 hours ago by throws_lemy@lemmy.nz to c/privacy@programming.dev

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[–] Archangel1313@lemmy.ca 17 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

I can see this. I will only try refreshing a video a couple of times before giving up and moving on, if I can't watch it without ads. And lately, YouTube has been fighting with my adblocker so much, that I end up just turning it off altogether. Fuck ads.

[–] LodeMike@lemmy.today 2 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Are you able to use yt-dlp or PipePipe?

[–] Archangel1313@lemmy.ca 3 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

I will be honest...I don't know what those are. Lol!

[–] LodeMike@lemmy.today 2 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

The first one is a popular video downloader, typically used for YouTube. The second is an Android app that is very well made.