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[–] pdavis@lemmy.world 26 points 1 year ago (2 children)

My ad blocker was working so well I didn't even realize I had it installed and blocking ads on YouTube. I don't mind watching a few ads as long as it doesn't get out of hand.

[–] buddascrayon@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I actually used to have all ad blockers turned off for YouTube because I wanted to support all my favorite creators on there. But then YouTube took away the daily suggestions because I don't let it track my history. So I said "fuck it" and turned all the adblockers back on.

Now I just support the creators I care to via Nebula and their various Patreons.

[–] gnuplusmatt@reddthat.com 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

took away the daily suggestions because I don’t let it track my history

the funny thing is, if you go to a non logged in session, the suggestion page works fine. It was such an arbitratry grab for the user to consent to them collecting your data. I just bookmarked the subscriptions page and only go there now

[–] buddascrayon@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I hadn't thought of that. I'll have to try it. It gets boring just looking at my subscriptions.

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

Same I had no idea what anyone was talking about.