YouTube is testing a more aggressive approach against ad blockers

Re:YouTube is testing a more aggressive approach against ad ... by eszed on Saturday July 01, 2023 @04:38AM (#36548077)

Google used to (like, fifteen years ago) go to enormous lengths to break or cripple any kind of SEO - unpredictably revising their algorithm, hand-reviewing sites, and other things that they wouldn't even admit to or hint about (for fear of giving the nascent SEO "industry" a moment of ascendency). There was a brief time in the early teens when the received wisdom was that "SEO doesn't work".

Maybe they still do all that, but I'm not convinced. I see so many transparently SEO-ified sites at the top of search results that I regularly think "I wouldn't have seen that in 2008".

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Re:YouTube is testing a more aggressive approach against ad ... by _aavaa_ on Saturday July 01, 2023 @12:25PM (#36551808)

I recently switched to Kagi, and it does most of the things I talk about above. I don’t stumble into SEO crab very often anymore. And when I do, I instantly black hole it.

They recently rolled out a leaderboard where you can see the top sites people block, downrank, uprank, and pin to the top. Extremely useful.

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