Google intensifies fight against YouTube adblockers - gHacks Tech News
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Google just announced that it is intensifying its fight against adblockers on YouTube and specifically against third-party YouTube apps.

Google warns users of these apps that their experience may deteriorate soon. They may “experience buffering issues” or see errors such as “the following content is not available on this app” when trying to watch videos.

Similar to Google Search, ads have become insufferable for many users of the service. There are too many of them, they may break the viewing experience, and they may show inappropriate content.

YouTube Premium is expensive. What weights more for some users is that its functionality is severely limited when compared to third-party apps.

The cat and mouse game continues.

For those looking to avoid ads or improve privacy, here are some options for free, open source, privacy-friendly frontends to YouTube without advertisements:

https://www.privacyguides.org/en/frontends/#youtube

  • JubilantJaguar@lemmy.world
    61·
    2 months ago

    You’re falling victim to the dumb-as-pigshit culture of downvoting good-faith opinions. Mindless downvoters: GO BACK TO REDDIT WHERE YOU BELONG.

    This was a thoughtful, thought-provoking, well-expressed opinion. Thank you.

    • TheAnonymouseJoker@lemmy.ml
      2·
      2 months ago

      Please be just a little less aggressive. Lemmy users do not need to stoop down to Redditor tier levels. With a higher standard comes better behaviour responsibility. Remember, most of us came from Reddit because it became shit.