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Re:uBlock Origin: Address first-party tracker blocking by ahartmetz on Wednesday November 20, 2019 @08:45AM (#21583804)
Possibly it's also self-preservation by the people involved. I imagine that even the YouTube developers and project managers hate watching ads. A solution only for them would probably look bad to the outside.
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Re:uBlock Origin: Address first-party tracker blocking by troydavis on Wednesday November 20, 2019 @09:06AM (#21583965)
> I imagine that even the YouTube developers and project managers hate watching ads.

In most countries, any YouTube user can pay a subscription fee to disable ads. It's called YouTube Premium: https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/6308116?hl=en

This has existed since 2015, so presumably Google employees have it on their personal accounts.

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Re:uBlock Origin: Address first-party tracker blocking by e_proxus on Wednesday November 20, 2019 @09:03AM (#21583940)
I assume they would just all have free Premium accounts if they're working at Google.
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Re:uBlock Origin: Address first-party tracker blocking by snug on Wednesday November 20, 2019 @09:37AM (#21584245)
nope

source: ex-googler

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Re:uBlock Origin: Address first-party tracker blocking by Kaiyou on Wednesday November 20, 2019 @10:10AM (#21584532)
Isn't that basically Youtube Red?
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