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[Mental Outlaw] YouTube Accidentally Made Ad Blockers More Powerful (odysee.com)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago (2 children)
  1. The video's comment section on its native site is... interesting.
  2. I don't trust this guy. It feels like he's just slinging things at the wall that most people could intuit without any research. Yes, sometimes things backfire when you try to stifle them. Sometimes, however, the stifling works (otherwise dictators would have a much harder time ruling). That's just the way things go.
  3. I'ma need some actual data to back up Youtube's anti-adblocker experiment succeeding/failing. People are so quick to jump on the 'it failed' or 'it succeeded' bandwagon but the truth is we simply don't know the result yet, and may not for a long while.
  4. This could've been an email. This guy's delivery is sprawling and lacks conciseness.
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

He'll often take a two minute point and then extend it by 10 minutes.

He's also one of those people who acts like everyone who doesn't use Linux is a sheep. Linux is fundamentally not ready for widespread desktop use. The only way I see that changing is if a corporation decides to make their own distro and find a way to monetize it. It would also need to be pre-installed.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I have some tech savvy friends who caved in a took a YouTube premium sub because they didn't know the fix to refresh ublock rules.

So I think YouTube's strategy is working, even if they are not completely blocking blockers they are still converting some blockers to paying users.