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submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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YouTube is intensifying efforts to combat adblockers, including blocking video playback and warning users of potential account suspension.
Increased ads on YouTube have driven many users to adblockers, hurting both YouTube’s ad revenue and content creators reliant on ad-based income.
Despite these measures, many users are leaving YouTube or finding workarounds, leading creators to seek alternative revenue streams off-platform.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

There's no winning a perpetual game of whack-a-mole, especially when having no moles (=viewers) left also means that you lose.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

They kept trying to ruin my experience so I've switched to Invidious and Odysee.

Invidious only for the content creators that don't crosspost to Odysee yet.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago (4 children)

Meanwhile Odysee goes ads free...

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[–] gravitas_deficiency 6 points 3 months ago

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

No, this can’t be. They took all of our personal information so they could use AI to tailor ads to exactly what we wanted at any given moment.