• Turd FergOP
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    11923 days ago

    Their strategy to combat ad blockers is to add more ads. Logic becomes irrelevant when youre surrounded with a cloud of greed. Ublock ftw.

    • @[email protected]
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      4023 days ago

      My guess is they’ve been planning this for a while and had to combat the adblockers and third party scrapers first.

        • whoareu
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          222 days ago

          For now. YouTube can make it not work whenever they want by implementing something like WEI. I wonder why they are afraid of doing so.

          • mihor
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            322 days ago

            They’re playing the long game here. First they assimilated browser space with Chrome, then they disabled manifest v2, and the next step will probably be some reincarnation of WEI just like you said, in order to close down the open internet for good.

            If you look at the state of the web right now, most of the interactions and traffic go through the dedicated apps of the big tech (spyware, basically) who are vendor-locking the experience. I figure it will divide the web even further into two entities, one being the addictive big-tech apartheid spyware gardens, and the other being the free fediverse-like FOSS-natured web for privacy and tech enthusiasts, with severely limited interaction between the two. I’ll always choose the latter, thank you very much.

      • @[email protected]
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        1923 days ago

        Most definitely. They were complaining about them not making a profit, and they really thought blaming the few people using an Adblock made sense.

        It’s all to get more Premium subscriptions. The ads are an intentional problem with the “obvious solution” being advertised right there on the homepage.