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

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Very much this. If I visit the grocery store, I am not walking through other businesses just to get to each isle.

I am perfectly happy with going back to amateur YouTube somewhere else. If it was a real community of individuals I would probably post content again myself. The whole idea of YT as career content creators only is not very interesting to me any more.

I do not use an ad blocker. I use a whitelist firewall. I only visit the websites I request. If anyone wants to show me content, it must be on the servers I wish to visit. As far as I am concerned, if I invite you into my home, you head to the bathroom, open the window and let a dozen people into my home, you're never going to get invited to visit again. This is how ads work.

If YT can't trust these people to host their content directly, that is not my problem.