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Re:YouTube tests disabling videos for people using ad blockers by dkjaudyeqooe on Friday June 30, 2023 @05:07PM (#36542289)
No one is forcing YouTube to operate, at a loss or otherwise. They can stop any time they want.

If YouTube disappeared tomorrow it would arguably the best thing that happened to internet video since its inception. You can only imagine the variety of services that would spring up, maybe a standard way of finding and viewing videos would emerge.

People don't realise how damaging (essential) monopolies are, abusive or not.

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Re:YouTube tests disabling videos for people using ad blockers by missedthecue on Friday June 30, 2023 @05:35PM (#36542653)
Countering adblock is one way Google is "stopping loss-making operations any time they want".

And everyone here is behaving like pissy 6 year olds in response

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Re:YouTube tests disabling videos for people using ad blockers by dkjaudyeqooe on Friday June 30, 2023 @06:21PM (#36543271)
And adblocking will just counter them back.

By your standards, Google is acting even more juvenile. It will not defeat or reduce adblocking and will likely alienante paying customers. It's less than pointless.

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