YouTube is waging a war against adblockers...and losing.
  • YouTube is intensifying efforts to combat adblockers, including blocking video playback and warning users of potential account suspension.
  • Increased ads on YouTube have driven many users to adblockers, hurting both YouTube’s ad revenue and content creators reliant on ad-based income.
  • Despite these measures, many users are leaving YouTube or finding workarounds, leading creators to seek alternative revenue streams off-platform.
  • lengau@midwest.socialEnglish
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    26 days ago

    I mean… It probably is. It’s accessing the copyrighted content outside of the terms of the license provided by the copyright owner.

    But that shows more how broken the copyright system is than anything when piracy has such a low bar.