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YouTube's new anti-adblock measures

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990 points smitop | 2 comments | 20 Jun 25 17:01 UTC | HN request time: 0.596s | source
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tmaly ◴[20 Jun 25 21:44 UTC] No.44332410[source]▶
The number of ads they run reminds me of the good old days where half of the TV show time was commercials.
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1. southernplaces7 ◴[20 Jun 25 23:17 UTC] No.44333005[source]▶
Absurd but true in a similar way: I get a tiny spark of nostalgia on those occasions where a bit of sponsored promotion pops into part of some podcast i'm listening to as a YT video while I do chores. (Ublock running, so no third party ads at least)

The thing about those idiotic third party ads on YouTube, which is so grotesquely annoying is that, unlike TV ads of old, some of then can literally run for dozens of minutes at auto-increased volume unless you go to your device and skip them at some point. That is some particularly shitty nonsense right there.

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2. tmaly ◴[26 Jun 25 13:33 UTC] No.44387262[source]▶
When I use to listen to radio, I dreamed of a system that would auto mute the commercials