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YouTube warns it might make your viewing experience worse if you don't turn off your ad-blocker (www.businessinsider.com)
submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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YouTube warns it might make your viewing experience worse if you don't turn off your ad-blocker::YouTube has been cracking down on people using ad blockers. Now, a spokesperson says that using ad blockers could lead to "suboptimal viewing."

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[–] [email protected] 230 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Worse than using YouTube without an ad blocker?

[–] [email protected] 105 points 2 years ago (2 children)

That's the funny thing about this threat. It implies that using YouTube the regular way is "optimal" viewing. It's fucking shit without adblock.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago

It's optimal to them. You just don't understand Youtube's perspective of it yet. And then it's unoptimal for them when you watch with the adblocker.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago

How to quit YT in a week?

  1. disable adblocking
  2. Suffer watching ads
  3. Get bored, because you no longer feel like watching adTube
  4. Switch to something else
[–] [email protected] 52 points 2 years ago (1 children)

There is absolutely zero possibility that they can find a way to make my experience on YouTube worse than my experience on YouTube without uBlock.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

That's a way to look at, but i'l personally still be using Peertube. instead of 3rd party YouTube apps.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Some of those alternative “YouTube” apps are not limited to YouTube as a backend/source of content. I don’t recall if it’s freetube, new pipe or both that allow using Peertube and YouTube from the same app, which helps bridge the gap in content / ease the transition from an end user perspective.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Newpipe supports Youtube, Peertube, media.ccc.de, Soundcloud and Bandcamp

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Interesting. Thanks, I'll definitely be checking it out.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The fact that my children know the Liberty Mutual jingle from watching YouTube at school says no.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

yo what can you even do about this