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Re:Show HN: YouTube banned adblockers so I built an extensio... by zarzavat on Sunday November 19, 2023 @10:18AM (#38333400)
YouTube isn’t a service. YouTube is a website. The fundamental principle behind the WWW is everybody is free to point their user agent at a public website. Google wouldn’t exist without that principle, they built their empire based on having a crawler download everybody’s websites.

If YouTube wants to put a paywall up then fine, but until then I’m going to keep using my user agent which includes an ad blocker. I didn’t turn the adblocker on specifically for YouTube and I’m not going to turn it off for YouTube.

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Re:Show HN: YouTube banned adblockers so I built an extensio... by freedomben on Sunday November 19, 2023 @11:23AM (#38334104)
I'm failing to understand the difference between a website and a service. Are you saying that all modern SaaS offerings are just websites? Can you give some examples of a "service?"
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