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YouTube's new anti-adblock measures

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990 points smitop | 1 comments | 20 Jun 25 17:01 UTC | HN request time: 0.203s | source
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ddtaylor ◴[21 Jun 25 00:02 UTC] No.44333279[source]▶
I don't care when YouTube does a buffer thing because blocking ads for me is about distractions and context switching. My cognitive load is already very high and it's extremely frustrating to have to filter out more garbage.
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paulcole ◴[21 Jun 25 00:34 UTC] No.44333459[source]▶
You could just pay the $13/month? Would save the worries about context switching further taxing your already high cognitive load? And I would expect your high cognitive load helps you earn well above $13/month?
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dleslie ◴[21 Jun 25 00:43 UTC] No.44333502[source]▶
Paying for YT doesn't remove the ads.

On the other hand, the golden era of YouTube has passed. You aren't losing out on much if you simply stop using it.

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pier25 ◴[21 Jun 25 00:51 UTC] No.44333546[source]▶
Youtube premium does remove all Google's ads.

Obviously not the ads the content creator has put into the video itself.

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chasebank ◴[21 Jun 25 01:04 UTC] No.44333619[source]▶
There's an add-on called sponsor block, which works remarkably well, that will just skip sponsored ads inside videos.
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