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[–] [email protected] 144 points 11 months ago (34 children)

If you’re using uBlock Origin. Go to “Filter Lists” and Purge All Caches. That may help.

[–] [email protected] 44 points 11 months ago (26 children)

I imagine they'll eventually find a way to prevent us from blocking ads. Twitch TV for example has found some ways to make adblock useless.

It's a shame, and it's really just a side effect of google racing to the bottom of the adspace game. If ads weren't as cheap as they are today, they wouldn't be trying to maximize the amount of users who are forced to see advertisements.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)

They'll start banning Google accounts, that'll stop quite alot of people just because of how many users use gmail or drive.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

I don't think they'll resort to that because that would mean getting rid of their own source of income. YouTube may not be getting ad revenue, but they still collect data and that's where the real value is.

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