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 Talos   ( @talos@lemmy.world )  to TechnologyEnglish · 3 years ago

YouTube tests blocking videos unless you disable ad blockers

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YouTube tests blocking videos unless you disable ad blockers

www.bleepingcomputer.com

 Talos   ( @talos@lemmy.world )  to TechnologyEnglish · 3 years ago
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YouTube is running an experiment asking some users to disable their ad blockers or pay for a premium subscription, or they will not be allowed to watch videos.
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      Unrelated, online ads seem to go out of their way to insist that there’s nothing to be learned from print ad stacks. Which is a shame, because I’ve personally placed an irregular shape ad in the middle of a broadsheet page and placed stories around it in the manner least likely to confuse readers. Guess what the verdict was back then?

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      Are you saying your threshold for ads and empty foreshadowing hype is somehow under 99%? I sure do love me an ad-blocked, sponsor-blocked video that still somehow manages to waste 10 minutes to learn “no” or “I don’t know, either.”

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        That’s when the skip to highlight option comes in handy. And if a video doesn’t have it I end up contributing so next person can save time.

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      It makes the servive inconvenient and annoying to use. I just want to watch the video, not watch a 60s ad that us totally irrelevant to me.

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