Mustachius_Grumpius@thelemmy.club to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days agoYouTube continues global crackdown on ad blockers, targeting mobile third-party appswww.techradar.comexternal-linkmessage-square129linkfedilinkarrow-up1337arrow-down111
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minus-squareAmyAye@nord.publinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up56·1 day agoGod I wouldn’t mind if the ads weren’t so fucking cancer. Like I have streaming with ads and dumb Liberty Bibberty or whatever is fine. But YouTube, it constantly runs gambling scams and then rolls into a 90 minute “ad” podcast about some bull shit
minus-squareCyberChicken@whatcom.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12·1 day agoI would mind. I will never not mind. No ads, all or nothing.
minus-squaremadcaesar@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5arrow-down2·19 hours agoI will never pay for youtube while sponsor block is not part of the default app and downvoted are visible.
minus-squareAuli@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·14 hours agoYouTube can’t have sponser block as that is not part of YouTube.
minus-squareAmyAye@nord.publinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down1·15 hours agoFrankly, I find most YouTube content to be super obnoxious, so I would not pay for it anyway. I already barely ever use YouTube outside of trailers and music videos.
minus-squaredustyData@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up29·1 day agoI just noticed they removed the button to report ads as inappropriate.
minus-squarebruh@nord.publinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·15 hours agobecause ads are never inappropriate! source: Google
minus-squareKite@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·1 day agoI get SO MANY ads for dick pills. So many. How do they even get away with that?!
minus-squareTrilogy3452@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down1·24 hours agoEven with the consequences of popularized tracking?
God I wouldn’t mind if the ads weren’t so fucking cancer. Like I have streaming with ads and dumb Liberty Bibberty or whatever is fine.
But YouTube, it constantly runs gambling scams and then rolls into a 90 minute “ad” podcast about some bull shit
I would mind. I will never not mind. No ads, all or nothing.
I will never pay for youtube while sponsor block is not part of the default app and downvoted are visible.
YouTube can’t have sponser block as that is not part of YouTube.
Frankly, I find most YouTube content to be super obnoxious, so I would not pay for it anyway. I already barely ever use YouTube outside of trailers and music videos.
I just noticed they removed the button to report ads as inappropriate.
because ads are never inappropriate!
source: Google
I get SO MANY ads for dick pills. So many. How do they even get away with that?!
Even with the consequences of popularized tracking?