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Youtube's Anti-adblock is illegal in the EU (eupolicy.social)
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[โ€“] Blackmist@feddit.uk 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The ad company is Google, no? So they already have that logic ready to go.

Does anybody actually click the ads in YT videos? The only clickable thing I ever see is "Skip Ad".

[โ€“] TheGalacticVoid@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

Clicks are a metric that Google/YouTube tracks to determine whether a business has to pay for that ad, so it's necessary for ads to be clickable.