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YouTube’s ad blocker crackdown now includes third-party apps (www.theverge.com)
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[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Even the advertisers don't lose out because you wouldn't have paid attention to the ad too. They might even win a little because now one doesn't have to get annoyed by the ad and deliberately not buy the thing.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Exactly, I don't overly mind the "paid advertisements" the creators do, the guys I watch that do this are extremely funny in how they do it so if I don't manually skip I get a good laugh, like the "Adstronaut"