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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: 0.618s | 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. dbbk ◴[21 Jun 25 19:02 UTC] No.44339901[source]▶
Your position is that you should be able to use YouTube completely for free then? How is that financially sustainable?
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2. aprilthird2021 ◴[21 Jun 25 19:13 UTC] No.44339994[source]▶
Cue a long list of people who will say "I would pay for Premium except X Y and Z".

The fact is free YouTube is only possible with ads, and potentially only with the extremely detested ads we're talking about here. The other major UGC video platform (Twitch) is not profitable.

Broadcast TV and even cable or fixed content library streaming is A LOT cheaper to run than something like YouTube. I don't mean purely machine-wise, I also mean in terms of salaries, and those do matter to keep the service up and running, not to mention growing