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YouTube is now fully blocking ad blockers around the world(9to5google.com)

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froggers@lemmy.world
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Still wondering how this will play out in the EU.

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krigo666@lemmy.world
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It might actually be illegal in the EU for them to run scripts to detect ad blockers without asking permission first.

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froggers@lemmy.world
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Yeah, that’s why I’m really curious about how this will play out. I just hope that people will be the ones benefiting from this shitshow and not Youtube.

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0xD@infosec.pub
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YouTube is a for-profit service run by a company. If they can’t make it profitable due to low premium adoption or regulation there will be less freedom to post/view stuff on there. There will be no upside for users.

Everyone should really reevaluate their stance on premium services and the value they get out of them. The time of free is over - even something like lemmy needs funding.

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Ottomateeverything@lemmy.world
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So then they’ll just embed them into the video, refuse to serve the video until the time is up, etc. Running clientside snooping scripts is only one way for them to enforce this. The idea that EU law will somehow force YouTube to just serving you content without ads is entirely copium.

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Moneo@lemmy.world
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A black screen is infinitely less annoying than an ad. I don’t see google winning this battle.

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originalfrozenbanana@lemm.ee
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So? Let them make those changes then. That’s additional complexity and effort. They absolutely scoped that implementation against the one they chose and chose not to do it. Forcing them to spend the effort is still meaningful.

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