Really interesting read about the history of YouTube adblocking, how the new detection works, how uBO is responding, and how not to block the new popups.

  • Feydaikin@beehaw.org
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    9 months ago

    The question is ‘Do they want to keep throwing money at techs in the hope of forcing people to watch their ads?’

    At best, people will keep finding ways to get around the ads and YT will have wasted a ton of money on nothing.

    At worst, a bunch of people will abandon YT all together. And YT will have wasted a ton of money getting rid of them.

    Both options seem self-defeating and wasteful.