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YouTube's plan backfires, people are installing better ad blockers (www.androidauthority.com)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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cross-posted from: https://lemdro.id/post/2883134 (!android@lemdro.id)

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[–] 114 points 2 years ago (1 child)

Unlock origin is the adblocker that people are installing. There are a lot of people with shitty adblockers out there, I guess they are switching.

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  • [–] 35 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    I bet all those people with shitty adblockers are also probably googling better ad/YT compatible blockers lmaoo

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

    I searched "YouTube adblocker" on both google and DDG. The first mention of ublock origin was in the 1st page of Google (just at the bottom, under "recommended adblockers for Firefox", the 2nd option). There was no mention of it on DDG, even though I clicked "more results" once (so searched the equivalent of 2 pages). The problem with Google search is not google, it's SEO, that affects all search engines.

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

    To be fair someone that uses DDG most likely already has ublock origin.

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

    Can confirm. I use DuckDuck Go and uBlock.

    Thing is, searching with DDG takes time to get used to, as it doesn't work the same way as Google. Google uses a lot of convenient algorithms that are also a double edged sword.

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