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YouTube tests blocking videos unless you disable ad blockers (www.bleepingcomputer.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (12 children)

That's funny, I'm testing YouTube alternatives.

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

Suggestions?

My issue is that the content creators i watch probably arnt going to leave... and im sure ad blocks will find a way around it after a month or so

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

Invidious is the most obvious. Its FOSS wrapper but it also lets you watch peertube and other federated content.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They already started to fight the project last week, Google legal contacted the project owners

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I saw the reply they had. Interesting point about "We don't use your API so we didn't agree to the TOS of your API. Also there is no 'we', since we don't host invictus; simply develop it as a product"

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