[email protected]English • 1 year ago

YouTube is now fully blocking ad blockers around the world

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YouTube is now fully blocking ad blockers around the world

[email protected]English • 1 year ago

Since May, YouTube has ramped up its block of ad blockers and the company has now fully launched this policy worldwide...

cross-posted from: https://lemdro.id/post/2787773 ([email protected])

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23•1 year ago
I got the popup all the time for a few weeks with Firefox and uBlock Origin. As a YouTube Premium subscriber. The paid service. The whole reason they were pushing back on ad blockers to begin with.

Fuck these guys, I let the subscription lapse.

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