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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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[–] 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.