• CosmoNova@lemmy.world
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      2 years ago

      They started blocking users with advanced adblockers completely in some places. It’s expected they’ll roll out that policy in most countries. Prepare to either ditch Youtube completely, watch dozens of ads as well as sponsored segments every couple of minutes (because why would Google pay content creators who make them a huge pile of money by providing content for free adequately, right?) or pay hundreds of dollars a year. Even then they might start showing you some ads because why the hell not? Big tech stole the internet from us and now they’re banking in on it big time. Needlesly to say this is not a sustainable business model, but since when did that ever bother mega corporations?

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        2 years ago

        Unless they put YouTube content behind a paywall there will always be ways to block ads.

        Probably that would be their future take, free 3 minutes of the video, if you want more… pay.

        And then will the era of pirating and downloading YouTube videos begin.

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      2 years ago

      Unlock origin and ReVanced is great, but it doesn’t allow casting to the TV without ads…

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      2 years ago

      This right here. Crazy to me that people would pay for what ublock origin does for free. Especially people defending the need to shell out for the service to “support” a trillion dollar company like Google.