Google has begun testing a more aggressive approach to users trying to watch videos on the YouTube video platform with ad blockers and without a paid

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    1 year ago

    Advertising companies gunna advertise, hell or high water. Sometimes it’s easy to forget, but all the major players in tech are just advertising companies. I use a pihole running in my network to deep six all advertising traffic in a way that the website doesn’t know it’s happening.

    However, I subscribe to youtube premium for access to youtube music (it’s positively amazing if you love newly released EDM), and as a happy perk, no advertising videos for me.

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      1 year ago

      I subscribed back when it was Google Music + Youtube RED as a perk. Worth it to me to nix Youtube ads and listen to music all day (also without ads). There will always be a contingent of people that will spend an inordinate amount of time trying to make ad-supported stuff not have ads, but in the case of music and YT videos, pay up or watch the ads. If there was a reasonably priced option to subscribe to more than a single newspaper service, I’d be paying for that instead of doing the javascript disablement dance.