YouTube Begins Blocking Users Who Use Adblock

Re:YouTube Begins Blocking Users Who Use Adblock by beej71 on Friday October 27, 2023 @05:43PM (#38044396)

I paid for Premium for years. But then I started asking myself if wanted to give money to a company that pushed things like FLoC, Manifest v3, and WEI.

And the answer was no. We used to pay them $284/year for our household services.

Now we pay them nothing. Maybe they'll have a change of heart someday, but until then, not a dime.

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Re:YouTube Begins Blocking Users Who Use Adblock by JohnFen on Friday October 27, 2023 @06:14PM (#38044689)

YouTube is the only Google service that I still use, and I've been paying for premium. But, mostly for the reasons you list, I'm cancelling that subscription and abandoning YouTube altogether.

So that's at least two of us.

I'll have to give Nebula another try. I hope their app is better now. Last time, it was so bad that I cancelled that subscription.

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Re:YouTube Begins Blocking Users Who Use Adblock by beej71 on Friday October 27, 2023 @08:38PM (#38045762)

And don't forget Hoopla--your library might support it. I get 8 media rentals a month through mine.

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