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YouTube's new anti-adblock measures

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990 points smitop | 3 comments | 20 Jun 25 17:01 UTC | HN request time: 0.462s | source
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UltraSane ◴[20 Jun 25 23:07 UTC] No.44332938[source]▶
I have every right to try to block YouTube ads and YouTube has every right to try to defeat whatever I do.
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1. dbbk ◴[21 Jun 25 19:10 UTC] No.44339962[source]▶
They could very easily just ban ad blockers from the Chrome extension store, but they haven't
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2. UltraSane ◴[21 Jun 25 21:27 UTC] No.44340856[source]▶
Serious people use Firefox and uBlock Origin.
3. redml ◴[21 Jun 25 21:38 UTC] No.44340929[source]▶
im sure that's for antitrust reasons.