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YouTube tests blocking videos unless you disable ad blockers (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
submitted 1 year ago by talos@lemmy.world to c/technology@beehaw.org
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[–] xontinuity@sh.itjust.works 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

YouTube is going to have a lot of trouble enforcing this. Lots and lots of people out there are going to be immediately at work finding ways around this limitation.

[–] samick1@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

We'll make some plugin that downloads the ad and tells Google it was "totally watched and stuff".

[–] xavier666@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

"Say the product name into the mic to continue viewing the video"

[–] samick1@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

Hah, that'll be fun on my desktop... I don't even have a microphone.