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YouTube adds new hurdles for ad blockers, and there's currently no way around it (www.androidauthority.com)
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[–] Pamasich@kbin.earth 322 points 2 weeks ago (47 children)

For people who only go off headlines and comments and don't read the article, here's the important bits:

  • This only affects some users, not everyone
  • The issue is that comment sections are disabled and video descriptions claim to be empty
  • The issue goes away with a refresh, you don't need to turn off the adblocker, though you'll have to refresh every video
  • It affects all videos
  • The link to adblockers is due to everyone who is reporting the issue being a user of an adblocker, and turning it off fixing the issue permanently until it's turned on again
  • There's no specific browser or adblocker mentioned in the article
  • It affects Premium users too

edit: added "the article" after "don't read" to clarify

[–] MutantTailThing@lemmy.world 155 points 2 weeks ago (29 children)

This is why I will never get premium. You pay the motherfuckers money and still have to take it up the ass.

[–] biscuit@lemdro.id 5 points 2 weeks ago (11 children)

Yeah but if you were a YouTube Premium subscriber surely you'd disable the adblocker on youtube.com so you never get this issue.

[–] klymilark@herbicide.fallcounty.omg.lol 4 points 2 weeks ago

I... Honestly don't even think about my adblocker enough to even think to disable certain websites in it. Generally if I like a site enough to disable ads, I'll also generally like them enough to pay them more money than they would have gotten from me turning ads off for a year

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