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what youtube is doing is a slow easing of removing adblockers rather than an immediate one (lemmy.ml)

submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by jackpot@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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if they outright forced us to stop day one there'd be outrage, so they instead ease us in. first a popup, then a timed popup, slowly leading to their actual goal but without the risk of an initial outrage. i know this is an extreme comparison but we're like lambs to a slaughter

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[–] freebee@sh.itjust.works 4 points 11 months ago

It won't amount to much if there's no viable alternative.

Moving to piped, invidious, freetube etc is what most with big enough outrage are doing (including me) but let's face it: that's just kicking the can a bit further down the road. Can't "FOSS" YouTube, what they're rendering usable again still is fully owned by Google and they'll look in to deploying techniques to put an end to that Foss frontending too, eventually.