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YouTube is testing a more aggressive approach against ad blockers

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

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Post by i-hate-ads »

The best solution when you see an ad is to ctrl-click on it dozens of times. Then do it again with as many proxy/VPN/tor IPs as you can. It will cost google or the advertiser money or get them banned for clock fraud. Wish I could automate this. Which reminds me I need to install ad-nauseum again.

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

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Post by oatmeal1 »

lolinder wrote: post #357
mcpackieh wrote: post #309

I block ads because they're psychological warfare that corporations wage against me. I don't care how unobtrusive the ads are. I don't care if the ads don't track me. I grew up changing the channel on TV when ads came on, and ripping adverts out of magazines before sitting down to read them. I vote for billboard bans whenever I can. I have zero tolerance for ads of any sort. Advertisers have no morals, they're comple…

> It is really not so repulsive to see the poor asking for money as to see the rich asking for more money. And advertisement is the rich asking for more money. A man would be annoyed if he found himself in a mob of millionaires, all holding out their silk hats for a penny; or all shouting with one voice, “Give me money.” Yet advertisement does really assault the eye very much as such a shout would assault the ear. “B…

> It is really not so repulsive to see the poor asking for money as to see the rich asking for more money.

Does this guy really not understand the difference between someone asking for money in exchange for nothing as opposed to asking for money in exchange for something of value? If Coca-Cola was advertising a Venmo address to send them money in exchange for nothing it would be much more annoying than what they currently do.

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

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Post by thrown1212 »

xnx wrote: post #248
user3939382 wrote: post #230

If Google had the power to implement a device that forced your eyelids open to look at ads they would do it. Their company is user hostile and we should move as far as possible away from their services.

This is true of every advertiser. With regards to advertising, in most cases, Google is very admiral compared to its peers.

They’re the admiral of their peers in this space, no doubt of that.
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