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Re:YouTube is testing a more aggressive approach against ad ... by OJFord on Friday June 30, 2023 @12:47PM (#36538191)
But then to circle back on the submission, do sites have any obligation to make it easy (or no harder than it initially was) for you to separate the useful from the annoying? No more than you have right (which I agree with) to render it differently to their desire, I'd argue.
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Re:YouTube is testing a more aggressive approach against ad ... by bee_rider on Friday June 30, 2023 @01:03PM (#36538458)
I don’t think they do have that obligation. But the business model where ads are hosted in some ad network makes it pretty easy to differentiate between the good and bad content. It is a happy coincidence that this is the source of the most annoying ads generally.

Of course, business models might change. In that case my preferences probably will too, but I don’t think my reasoning will.

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