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YouTube’s ad blocker crackdown now includes third-party apps (www.theverge.com)
submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago (2 children)

My first time ever installing an adblocker was during a rapid anti-smoking campaign

Those ads made me want to take up smoking out of spite.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 7 months ago

Ouch. Cutting off the nose to spite the face.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago (1 children)

That was the purpose. You see, Big Tobacco actually sponsors the anti-smoking campaigns, which does give them some creative input. They tell the writers to make them as annoying as possible.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

They started messing with me on YT. When Piped began giving me errors last week, YT suddenly started behaving, but nagging me to try YT again. Google is truly evil, and dasterdly to boot .