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YouTube's new anti-adblock measures

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990 points smitop | 6 comments | 20 Jun 25 17:01 UTC | HN request time: 1.233s | source | bottom
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akersten ◴[21 Jun 25 01:03 UTC] No.44333609[source]▶
Thank you for your important work fighting this battle, it must be exhausting.

The more Google insists on forcing advertising on us, the more we should look closely at the wildly inappropriate and downright scammy ads they are hosting. If they can't leave well enough alone and look the other way on ad blocking, (which is the only way to avoid exposing myself and family to these dangerous ads), they need to be under a lot more scrutiny for the ads they choose to run.

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timmg ◴[21 Jun 25 01:06 UTC] No.44333634[source]▶
> The more Google insists on forcing advertising on us...

You can... just not visit youtube, right?

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1. randcraw ◴[21 Jun 25 03:15 UTC] No.44334206[source]▶
No. Youtube is a monopoly. For a huge amount pf historical video, they are the only game in town. Regulating the hell out of them -- especially gigantic fines for the insane amount of copyright piracy their business model depends upon -- is LONG overdue.
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2. pjc50 ◴[21 Jun 25 07:42 UTC] No.44335531[source]▶
Yes, although the problem is that trying to regulate them out of existence will destroy the archive. Especially if you try to insist on copyright traceability.
3. jiggawatts ◴[21 Jun 25 09:13 UTC] No.44335968[source]▶
It's incredible to me how YouTube has an uncountable number of "movie clip" and "TV show clip" channels with randomly generated names, to the point that you can watch pretty much any movie end-to-end, but people lose their minds about AI training using books.
4. Workaccount2 ◴[21 Jun 25 11:17 UTC] No.44336601[source]▶
Read up on vid.me, which broke YouTube's "monopoly" back in 2016-2017.

Seriously, go see what happened to them.

Turns out everyone complaining about YouTube, when given the option to jump to a new fresh user focused service, still blocks ads and refuses subscriptions.

This thread, and the hundreds like it, are why people nope the fuck out when considering creating a YT competitor.

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5. someone7x ◴[21 Jun 25 14:35 UTC] No.44337920[source]▶
You seem so certain on the betrayal of the content-creators.

> Read up on vid.me, which broke YouTube's "monopoly" back in 2016-2017

Okay, sounds interesting.

> May 21 (Reuters) - Alphabet's (GOOGL.O), opens new tab Google has persuaded a federal judge in California to reject a lawsuit from video platform Rumble (RUM.O), opens new tab accusing the technology giant of illegally monopolizing the online video-sharing market.

I see what I expected: that google cheated and got away with it. Where is the betrayal?

https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/google-defeats-rumb...

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6. Workaccount2 ◴[21 Jun 25 19:01 UTC] No.44339897{3}[source]▶
Who is Rumble and what do they have to do with vid.me?

I don't know if you are confused, but Vid.me was a totally different platform than whatever Rumble is...