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YouTube warns it might make your viewing experience worse if you don't turn off your ad-blocker (www.businessinsider.com)
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YouTube warns it might make your viewing experience worse if you don't turn off your ad-blocker::YouTube has been cracking down on people using ad blockers. Now, a spokesperson says that using ad blockers could lead to "suboptimal viewing."

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[โ€“] Lettuceeatlettuce@lemmy.ml 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

I thought All three of the ones I listed weren't reliant on YT APIs and instead scraped their content.

Edit: Just confirmed both NewPipe and Freetube do not use YouTube's api. I'm not sure about GrayJay though.