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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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[–] pulsewidth@lemmy.world 12 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

I, and many others left using YouTube from the site once they banned adblockers. I used to watch an hour a day I'd guess.

I'm technical, so I bothered seeking out alternative clients that can bypass the ads (Freetube, Grayjay, etc), but i still watch less overall. And after speaking to less technical friends and family, they said that the unskippable ads just got too much. So they stopped using it except for essential vids like tutorials.

Too many ads = consumer go byebye now.

Ya fuckin' milked the cow dry, idiots.

[–] lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (1 children)

Youtube is still 100% usable with uBlock Origin... Even the "lite" version of uBO.

[–] piccolo@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Its always a cat and mouse game. They say they blocked adblockers... but then that gets circumvented. But then they patch it, but that gets circumvented. If they spent a fraction of what they spend trying to stop adblockers and just show less ads... people wouldnt need to resort to adblockers!

[–] lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 hour ago

Right, but through the entire debacle where Youtube supposedly stopped working with adblockers at all, I had absolutely zero interruptions. Firefox w/uBO (mobile and desktop), Chrome w/uBOL, and even YT Revanced.