Ask HN: Googlers, Will Google Disable Accounts for Using Adblockers on YouTube?

Re:Ask HN: Googlers, Will Google Disable Accounts for Using ... by toast0 on Thursday October 12, 2023 @11:09AM (#37858296)

Legally, Google can probably disable your account for any reason or no reason. Using an adblocker isn't a legally protected thing, so no legal reason not to do it.

That said, it doesn't make a lot of sense. If you have an adblocker on one device, but not others, why drop your account when they could push you to use the device they like you to use?

Especially since, despite the popup saying it won't work, video playback still works as of earlier this week when I saw it.

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Re:Ask HN: Googlers, Will Google Disable Accounts for Using ... by hbn on Thursday October 12, 2023 @12:58PM (#37859824)

On that topic, I feel like when a company has gotten to the size of Google and your account with them becomes such an important part of your life that you can potentially face ruin by losing it, they should be held with legal responsibility to provide a proper support system to people losing their accounts. Especially if they're going forward with this new "passwordless" system that really just ties all your accounts to your Google account.

For all the stepping in the EU has been doing lately, I'd rather they focus on something like this before making me replace all my Lightning chargers with USB-C ones

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Re:Ask HN: Googlers, Will Google Disable Accounts for Using ... by jeo123 on Monday October 16, 2023 @10:05AM (#37900067)

Probably can't for EU side.

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