intentionally pushing enshitifaction because theyve stopped innovating.
Just pushes customers away and increases operational costs
Comment on Youtube's War on Adblock Got Worse
lulztard@reddthat.com 1 month ago
Somehow I’m completely sleeping on that entire issue. I’ve been running JS-blockers, ad-blockers and privacy-protectors for so long, the ad spam went entirely by me. Every now and then I’m testing something on my add-on free, unmodified Edge just to see if it’s my addons or the site is actually broken, and I’m shocked at how sites actually look compared to my experience. I wouldn’t know how anyone is able to rawdog the internet.
Wooki@lemmy.world 1 month ago
mesamunefire@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Once server side ad blocking makes its way into mainstream, ad blocking I think will get interesting. Closer to the old ad blockers for cable television.
SomeGuy69@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Don’t worry, we’ll always be able to detect ads and block them. It’s by nature of an ad to be detectable.
paraphrand@lemmy.world 1 month ago
What do you mean by server side?
mesamunefire@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Heres a better article on the technology: adguard.com/…/youtube-server-side-ad-insertion.ht…
It basically makes ad blockers as we use them not work by injecting the ads into the video itself. It will also make things like sponsor block/ublock origin/etc… not work. They are testing the waters as of now.
paraphrand@lemmy.world 1 month ago
So you don’t mean ad blocking you mean ad serving.
Opisek@lemmy.world 1 month ago
How did they work for cable TV?