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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: 0.38s | 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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okdood64 ◴[21 Jun 25 02:54 UTC] No.44334127[source]▶
Or just pay for Premium... No one's forcing you to do anything.
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inetknght ◴[21 Jun 25 03:14 UTC] No.44334199[source]▶
Wait until Google shows ads in premium too. Paid-for cable TV did the same rugpull decades ago.
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1. oefrha ◴[21 Jun 25 06:25 UTC] No.44335048[source]▶
That’s the thing about modern capitalism. Making profit isn’t enough, the profit has to keep growing. So once the market is saturated, you either reduce perks, jack up prices, bundle new features to jack up prices (my GSuite bills doubled in ~3 years before I went in and adjusted the plan; the latest price hike “reflects the significant added AI value”), or find new ways to monetize the same users (ads, “partners”, etc.). It’s inevitable.