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Re:YouTube’s makeover continues with redesigned mobile app, ... by CryoLogic on Tuesday August 29, 2017 @02:24PM (#15126469)
Google has a whitelisting agreement with Adblock Plus now.
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Re:YouTube’s makeover continues with redesigned mobile app, ... by lewisl9029 on Saturday September 02, 2017 @04:30PM (#15158035)
It seems to me like Youtube's video ads fall squarely within Adblock Plus's own list of unacceptable ads, under "Pre-roll video ads": https://adblockplus.org/acceptable-ads#not-acceptable-ad

Have they given up on the guise that this is anything other than a money-grabbing extortion scheme?

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