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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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[–] dinckelman@lemmy.world 52 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Its like every time when these corporations say they don't know how ads got injected into the start menu or something. Surely thats just happens through magic, and not weeks of managerial approval, and software work.

Ad blockers didn't break view counts. Them attempting to block the ad blockers broke view counts

[–] doctortofu@piefed.social 16 points 17 hours ago

Don't you hate it when you mistype a comma and your code to show ads suddenly issues a pull request, approves it, uploads itself to staging, goes through QA and then deploys to prod completely by accident? I know I do! /s