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YouTube's new anti-adblock measures

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990 points smitop | 3 comments | 20 Jun 25 17:01 UTC | HN request time: 0.536s | source
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brightmood ◴[20 Jun 25 18:11 UTC] No.44330349[source]▶
So you buy premium - now you don't have ads from YouTube anymore. But now YouTubers such as LinusTechTips and who else not want monthly payments for their exclusive content. Yea, that's not going to work. Now your watchers don't watch your content.
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bitpush ◴[20 Jun 25 18:13 UTC] No.44330364[source]▶
That's a self correcting situation. If LTT sees a huge drop in their views/subscribers, they'll correct the situation.

.. or a competitor (who's a competitor to LTT? GamerNexus? MKBHD?) would take their place.

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1. k12sosse ◴[20 Jun 25 23:13 UTC] No.44332989[source]▶
Admittedly don't watch LTT because basically the content is the advertisement. Maybe it's changed.
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2. pests ◴[21 Jun 25 01:14 UTC] No.44333681[source]▶
It’s crazy to ram as they did a revenue breakdown recently and the sponser segments was way tinier than I expected - like 10% or in that range. I was annoyed just knowing they shit on their videos just for that tiny profit boost.
3. imp0cat ◴[21 Jun 25 06:16 UTC] No.44335011[source]▶
Oh just get the screwdriver already, will you?! :)

LTT does have some interesting videos, but yeah, most of their output is full of ads.