• YouTube is intensifying efforts to combat adblockers, including blocking video playback and warning users of potential account suspension.
  • Increased ads on YouTube have driven many users to adblockers, hurting both YouTube’s ad revenue and content creators reliant on ad-based income.
  • Despite these measures, many users are leaving YouTube or finding workarounds, leading creators to seek alternative revenue streams off-platform.
  • polle@feddit.org
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    2 months ago

    Smarttube stopped working some weeks ago for a day. I tried watching YouTube with ads, the experience was so fucking insane to me. Like multiple, non skipable ads before the video starts + more ads during the video. It just was unwatchable. Its just unusable.

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      2 months ago

      Newpipe still works (Google may break it, but the app is usually updated in a couple days and it works again)

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        2 months ago

        It just didn’t work for a day. They are really fast in patching. But good to know that newpipe is working also an androidTV.