It will be another dark day on the internet if Youtube finally blocks out the last adblockers.
As a small channel owner, there’s no other viable place to share my hobby content. Up until six months ago, I could count on Reddit for 150-200 views, now it is 15-20. If Youtube finally goes full enshitted, there go the rest of my viewers and I may as well just give up making stuff.
Misleading. Ad blocker installations also rose. This isn’t people leaving adblocking, this is people changing to better ones.
Do other non ublock adblockers not have the ability to whitelist specific domains? Or are people just unaware of it? (Probably the latter id assume)
The ad blockers in question were AdGuard and Ghostery, acc. to the article.
uBlock Origin is still working fine for me. And NewPipe in the cell phone.
Ghostery does work as an ad blocker too, and advertises (eh) itself as such.
Plus, for corporate nowadays, tracking and advertisement are two steps of the same process.
I uninstalled chrome. Stopped logging into YouTube. And moved to freetube on desktop. Newpipe on Android.
