• JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz
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    11 months ago

    They don’t want to send us videos, they want to serve us ads and annoy us into buying Youtube Premium, which someone using adblocker won’t see, or need. From their point of view they would win either way - if they successfully block adblockers it either converts us into ad watchers, premium subscribers, or we fuck off and stop using their bandwidth.

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      11 months ago

      It’s funny because I pay for premium and have noticed a worse experience since this was revealed. They don’t seem to check if a user has adblock and pays.

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        11 months ago

        They don’t seem to check if a user has adblock and pays.

        They definitely seem to have checks in place for it. I have Family Premium and so far no issues at all.

        Edit: to clarify, not a fan of any of this. Just saying it does work for me

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          11 months ago

          Well, I don’t pay for premium, and I use an adblocker, and I haven’t had any problems. Not having a problem doesn’t prove anything if they’re only targeting a subset of their users…

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          11 months ago

          The article says that this isn’t happening for all users, which indicates that they’re still experimenting with it and haven’t fully rolled it out yet.