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YouTube is testing server-side ad injection to counteract ad blockers (alternativeto.net)

submitted 3 weeks ago by Zerush@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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[–] glimse@lemmy.world 38 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

I know this is an unpopular opinion but I love YouTube and it really bums me out to have to drop it. My home account has been heavily curated over the past two decades and it's pretty rare to see a video on my homepage from the shitty part of YouTube...now I'm getting ads and just closing the tab. I have a separate account just for listening to music on my work laptop and I've found a ton of new artists through it, too....not sure what I'm gonna do once it starts getting ads, too.

I have a Nebula subscription but only like 1/3 of the channels I watch are on there. And obviously none of the music

[–] Soundhole@lemm.ee 16 points 3 weeks ago

I'm with you so I pay a subscription (it is literally the only one I pay for) but even that is not enough as the enshittification is encouraging creators to release special videos just for their own channel subscribers now. So I need subscriptions on top of my subscriptions (dawg).

YouTube (Google/Alphabet) is a monopoly that needs to be smashed to itty bits.

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