YouTube is waging a war against adblockers...and losing.
  • 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.
  • lengau@midwest.socialEnglish
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    3 months ago

    I mean… It probably is. It’s accessing the copyrighted content outside of the terms of the license provided by the copyright owner.

    But that shows more how broken the copyright system is than anything when piracy has such a low bar.

    • Teknikal@eviltoast.orgEnglish
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      3 months ago

      To be honest unless I have a cutlass at linus’s throat and take something away from him he can never get again. To me it’s not Piracy.

      I mean why should be watching a YouTube video which ultimately bores me and skipping the silly ads I would never ever buy anyway count as taking Linus’s personal property from him. It’s stupid. Honestly to me any YouTube ad is just guaranteeing I will never ever purchase it anyway as the ad just annoys me to that point.

      Honestly ads personally piss me off to the point that company is never ever getting even a penny from me.