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YouTube cracking on ad blockers. (lemmy.world)
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[–] 44 points 2 years ago (7 children)

I imagine they'll eventually find a way to prevent us from blocking ads. Twitch TV for example has found some ways to make adblock useless.

It's a shame, and it's really just a side effect of google racing to the bottom of the adspace game. If ads weren't as cheap as they are today, they wouldn't be trying to maximize the amount of users who are forced to see advertisements.

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  • [–] 84 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    I suspect ad blocking will always be an arms race. The server can only ask the client to play the ad, and then rely on the client to truthfully report whether it did so.

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  • [–] 41 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    I'm sure they'll try to implement some type of DRM BS into the web that allows them. It's one of the good things about projects like Gemini. I used to think it was only good for the novelty of having a web alternative protocol.

    No doubt Big Tech would lobby for Microsoft to use Windows to flag Gemini browsers as malicious and then run FUD campaigns against the Gemini protocol

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  • [–] 24 points 2 years ago (1 child)
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  • [–] 25 points 2 years ago

    Y'all remember when back in the day, Google's motto was "don't be evil." And then at some point somebody told them how much money there was in being evil and then they just pivoted to being a functional parody of a giant evil megacorporation from a cyberpunk novel? Cuz I remember that.

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  • [–] 23 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    But then you'll get prompts for "What product did you just watch an ad for?"

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    It’s only a matter of time before they start embedding them into the video like podcasts do and you won’t be able tell the difference between ad and video with software.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Worst case scenario I think I'd just resort to downloading the videos to watch. Live videos is the challenge, but luckily I don't watch live streams.

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  • [+] -6 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Bruh, your not gonna believe this, but the ducks at the park are free. if you use one of these, you can download all the ducks you want. I downloaded 9000 ducks so far.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    To be fair, he was talking about live streams, as in watching people in real-time.

    That can be a fairly different experience, especially since downloaders don't grab the chat at the moment. Also for unarchived streams, they can only be downloaded if you are aware and able to download at the time that the stream is still active.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    They'll start banning Google accounts, that'll stop quite alot of people just because of how many users use gmail or drive.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago

    I don't think they'll resort to that because that would mean getting rid of their own source of income. YouTube may not be getting ad revenue, but they still collect data and that's where the real value is.

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