YouTube's plan backfires, people are installing better ad blockers

3 years ago by ijeff to c/technology

People are installing and uninstalling ad blockers in record high numbers as a result of YouTube's anti-ad blocking efforts.

cross-posted from: https://lemdro.id/post/2883134 (!android@lemdro.id)

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fne8w2ah 90 points 3 years ago

uBlock Origin FTW!

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Lianodel 38 points 3 years ago

I love that, in a competition between a corporation worth hundreds of billions of dollars and a FOSS project, all Google managed to do was annoy uBlock Origin users for like a week. I just had to manually update the extension and restart my browser a few times.

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wizzor 16 points 3 years ago

I have been lucky, no ads, no message. Probably my region gets the updates so late uBlock has already compensated.

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Auli 2 points 3 years ago

If the numbers ghostery and that are posting is true then overall it's working out as intended.

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