YouTube warns it might make your viewing experience worse if you don’t turn off your ad-blocker::YouTube has been cracking down on people using ad blockers. Now, a spokesperson says that using ad blockers could lead to “suboptimal viewing.”

  • Blue and Orange@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    That’s the funny thing about this threat. It implies that using YouTube the regular way is “optimal” viewing. It’s fucking shit without adblock.

    • rob299@bookwormstory.social
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      1 year ago

      It’s optimal to them. You just don’t understand Youtube’s perspective of it yet. And then it’s unoptimal for them when you watch with the adblocker.

    • Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz
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      1 year ago

      How to quit YT in a week?

      1. disable adblocking
      2. Suffer watching ads
      3. Get bored, because you no longer feel like watching adTube
      4. Switch to something else