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youtube getting more aggressive.. i've got firefox and ublock but this shit is still coming up

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[–] _haha_oh_wow_@sh.itjust.works 38 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] JGrffn@lemmy.world 22 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It's a matter of who gets tired quicker at this point, YouTube, ublock maintainers, or users. We're on the losing side, and alternative front ends sound like the "we're cornered" solution. I imagine Google won't take long to break them as well.

[–] Pika@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 year ago (5 children)

the engineers won't get tired, they are paid not to. Not to say that people shouldn't try to evade it. This is super predatory but understandable cause of its income model.

[–] kameecoding@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

how is it predatory? lol

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[–] aceshigh@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

how much money do you think yt is losing to ubo, and how much does it cost for yt to keep updating the code? financially it may not be worth it.