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  • 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.
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[–] echodot@feddit.uk 97 points 3 months ago (19 children)

Despite all of their machinations my strategy of simply ignoring literally everything they say and continuing doing the same old same old appears to be flummoxing them.

I've literally not done anything and have never experienced any inconvenience. Are we sure they're doing anything at all?

[–] sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 41 points 3 months ago (7 children)

Same, I think they must be AB testing and I don't get assigned into the shitty group

[–] Excrubulent@slrpnk.net 19 points 3 months ago (5 children)

I definitely got really awful, unplayably spotty playback that seemed linked to adblock usage. Then I saw an article about it and confirmed I wasn't going crazy, and that day it stopped happening, so it felt like I was going crazy all over again. It's like the moment they realised it was going to become a problem and they weren't as sneaky as they thought, they turned it off. I haven't had an issue since then.

[–] smeenz@lemmy.nz 10 points 3 months ago

I had the same experience with shitty playback buffering every few seconds on popular videos that should be cached on a nearby cdn, and then saw lots of articles about it and then boom a week later everything was back to normal

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