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YouTube's new anti-adblock measures

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991 points smitop | 1 comments | 20 Jun 25 17:01 UTC | HN request time: 0.207s | source
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simion314 ◴[20 Jun 25 17:59 UTC] No.44330216[source]▶
I have no respect for Youtube/google developers, like they have apps where you need to pay to use them with the screen turned off, so they screw your battery (reducing your device live) and wasting energy so their boss gets a bigger yacht (cecause it seems ads are not enough)
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jahsome ◴[20 Jun 25 18:05 UTC] No.44330275[source]▶
I don't necessarily disagree but it's not a Google problem. It's a human problem.

For example: What value does your comment provide the world? Enough value to offset the carbon emissions from transmission/storage/retrieval/display? Personally, I'd answer no. Thus your comment itself is a waste of energy.

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1. simion314 ◴[20 Jun 25 20:30 UTC] No.44331789[source]▶
Can you guess how much is my comment energy usage compares versus all the devices that run YouTube with the screen on?

What about those electronic devices that will end their life sooner because of that?

My hope is that other people will read my comment, add their own support or feedback and maybe at least one single person will think mroe and had the morals to refuse implementing anti environment and anti user features.