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Re: YouTube is testing a more aggressive approach against ad blockers

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Post by dizzycaviar » Fri, Jun 30, 2023, 5:33 PM UTC

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Re: YouTube is testing a more aggressive approach against ad blockers

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Post by dizzycaviar » Fri, Jun 30, 2023, 5:33 PM UTC

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Re: YouTube is testing a more aggressive approach against ad blockers

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Post by frankfrankfrank » Fri, Jun 30, 2023, 5:34 PM UTC

kitsunesoba wrote: post #226

This doesn't really affect me since I subscribe to premium, but something that a lot of ad-based services don't seem to grasp is why people block ads. It's because they've become increasingly obnoxious. Nobody blocked ads when they were a simple column of links in the gutter or maybe an animated GIF banner with 3 frames. No, adblockers became popular because ads kept getting more loud (both visually and audibly), in…

My list or reasons I go hard against ads, even though I can appreciate quality ads that can serve a legitimate purpose:

1) tracking me across in serval ways, only making me more fanatical about it by selling my information and activity to who know whom. 2) malware/virus injections … it still happens way too often. 3) garbage ads; for garbage products, products/services I just purchased, or the infamous scam ads to defraud people.