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YouTube is now blocking Ad Blockers – So I just make ads run 16x faster (old.reddit.com)
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[–] bangupjobasusual 54 points 1 year ago (14 children)

This is an arms race YouTube cannot win

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

You are underestimating companies. Twitch won this race. YouTube can win too.

[–] bangupjobasusual 4 points 1 year ago

Twitch has the unique use case of live streaming, which makes the content’s timeliness a factor in the users experience.

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