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YouTube isn't happy you're using ad blockers — and it's doing something about it (mashable.com)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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YouTube isn't happy you're using ad blockers — and it's doing something about it::undefined

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Five minutes of commercials for fifty minutes of content?

Yeah, and besides, that shit barely functions on TV/streaming because someone paid to have quality content created. When you're clicking around yt and you don't know if a video is decent or dogshit, why should you have to sit through long ads just so you can watch a minute before you decide the content sucks?

[–] SeeingWhereThisGoes 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

This is frequently brought up as a problem for twitch as well. On the rare times someone decides to check out a new streamer without many viewers they get ads before the stream and most people aren't going to sit through that for a streamer of unknown quality so it makes it even harder for new streamers to get discovered.