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wow just wow while i can't say i didn't see this one coming but it always amazes me where greed could lead someone

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“Allowlisted”?

Are we not allowed to say white/black anymore?

[–] cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Revanced: Blocked, huh? You don't say.

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[–] sunnyxiongster@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] MaxG@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

Their probably testing it out for a small group of users first to test their behaviour towards it. Checking how many disable the Adblock vs leaves the site before rolling it out to everyone.

[–] NameTaken@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I know this may be blasphemy but if you use a VPN to sign up from certain countries you can get YouTube premium for like 25 bucks for the year. Haven't tried it personally but I've seen it mentioned a million times.

If they go to war with adblockers though some one smarter then me will probably come out with a way to just download the video and cut out ads post.

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[–] Gentoo1337@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Man, what is happening to social media

[–] 9point6@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

Free silicon valley money for tech giants dried up with the SVB collapse and interest rates soaring.

Now the investors want their return on investment, and platforms are frantically trying to squeeze what they can out to do this

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