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THE BOOT SLURPING WILL CONTINUE UNTIL AD BLOCKERS ARE DISABLED (old.reddit.com)
submitted 9 months ago by bigboopballs@hexbear.net to c/the_dunk_tank@hexbear.net
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I know reddit is low hanging fruit, but I just can't with these dweebs.

Something has changed. Using an adblocker goes against the YouTube ToC, so Google has started to detect them. You need to disable Adblock for YouTube, and it should go back to normal.

fuck google for doing this.

Well, Google has every right to do so. It has to pay the content creators for their work, so people need to pay either (as you and I do) through Premium or by having advertisements. When people use an ad-blocker to watch YouTube, they are freeriding on the creators' work, which is disrespectful to say the least.

so-true why yes, I talk about people who use ad blocker to not have their consciousness invaded by advertisements using "welfare queen" language. how did you know?

They don't pay creators on YouTube as much as they used to.

I'm not surprised. People are blocking ads all over the place.

nerd

YouTube has recently been cracking down on ad-blockers, because they deprive content creators of their rightful fees. Recent changes have caused ad-blockers to misbehave.

Or just, you know, pay for the content? It's called YouTube Premium. People don't complain about Netflix or Amazon Prime charging money.

Anyway, it's your decision what you choose to do. I choose to pay.

smuglord

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[–] PKMKII@hexbear.net 40 points 9 months ago (3 children)

See, that’s where the messed up part is. If I’m reading this correctly, it looks like Chrome (being a Google product) is programmed to start hoovering up CPU and RAM if it detects a YouTube ad blocker. Firefox wouldn’t do that because it’s not a Google product.

Which to me isn’t just not cool, it’s moving Chrome into the realm of malware: use our product as we intend or your computer will become borderline non-functional.

[–] buckykat@hexbear.net 19 points 9 months ago (1 children)

All nonFree software is malware

[–] bigboopballs@hexbear.net 9 points 9 months ago

All nonFree software is malware

yes-chad

[–] SkingradGuard@hexbear.net 16 points 9 months ago

That's disgusting what-the-hell

[–] viva_la_juche@hexbear.net 15 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Apparently it’s actually a bug with specifically Adblock plus on chrome not so much google. Ublock origin users apparently haven’t had any issues w yt on chrome. At least that’s what I’ve read. Google is still a trash company regardless

[–] Ram_The_Manparts@hexbear.net 9 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

I'm on chrome/ublock and no problems with yt (famous last words?)

[–] viva_la_juche@hexbear.net 9 points 9 months ago

I have a set up like this for work and ice also has no issues

[–] Sinistar@hexbear.net 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)

IMO one of the reasons they're rolling this out to random people and not everybody all at once isn't just to manage the backlash, it's to make it harder to diagnose exactly what's happening. So maybe.

[–] Ram_The_Manparts@hexbear.net 2 points 9 months ago

Well fingers crossed then lol