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YouTube's new anti-adblock measures

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990 points smitop | 5 comments | 20 Jun 25 17:01 UTC | HN request time: 0.697s | source
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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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1. tptacek ◴[21 Jun 25 03:41 UTC] No.44334295[source]▶
Or, you could just honor the terms you clearly understand the content is being offered under, and just not use the service.

Not as fun to write about as coercion is, though.

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2. asadotzler ◴[21 Jun 25 04:40 UTC] No.44334561[source]▶
Or you could instead give them the middle finger and take anything they put out there. TOS are not binding contracts and until you're contractually bound to do otherwise, taking what they're handing out is completely reasonable.
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3. tptacek ◴[21 Jun 25 05:24 UTC] No.44334751[source]▶
Alright, but when they give the middle finger back at you in other ways, you made your bed.
4. dctoedt ◴[21 Jun 25 21:34 UTC] No.44340894[source]▶
> TOS are not binding contracts

American courts have had no difficulty in holding that TOS are binding IF done correctly. It wouldn't be prudent to imagine that YouTube's lawyers don't know how to do that.

Santa Clara Law professor Eric Goldman knows approximately everything about this subject. He posts frequent updates on his blog.

https://blog.ericgoldman.org/archives/category/licensingcont...

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