• legalfinding@lemmynsfw.com
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    1 year ago

    They started blocking people who use ad blockers from watching videos if they don’t disable it on YouTube. I think they just started doing it in the last few weeks

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      1 year ago

      I have had no issues. Even if they did end up successfully blocking (not likely) the videos are accessible via 3rd party sites/clients. I don’t see Google ever being able to successfully block users without adding a login requirement, and even then…

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        1 year ago

        If they are dumb enough to pull API access like reddit and twitter, they’d be opening themselves up to real competition for the first time ever