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YouTube is getting serious about blocking ad blockers (www.theverge.com)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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YouTube is getting serious about blocking ad blockers::YouTube is cracking down on ad blockers. In a statement to The Verge, YouTube’s Christopher Lawton says the company has launched a “global effort” to urge people to allow ads on the platform.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

We need to rid chrome of its monopoly first. Google is a privacy nightmare but it's only because of chrome hegemony over the browser ecosystem that they are able to forcibly DRM the web and castrate adblockers.