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The cat and Mouse games between blockers and anti-blockers begins.
I've been using adblocker on YouTube for years, but tried to turn it off yesterday as an experiment. Multiple, 40 sec to 60 sec ads on the first video. I knew it was bad, but that still surprised me.
How does anybody live with that level of annoyance?
I can recommend newpipe for android, as an ad free YouTube viewer.
Being poor that you can't buy Google Premium and too uneducated to use an ad blocker makes it that people think there's no other way and just accept it.
The same way they accept ads in free TV.
I always notice how horrible ads are when watching twitch, where ublock doesn't work sometimes
More people using adblocks, more ads for people who don't. It's simple business logic. Google is the largest advertising and analytics company. I'm sure they've got adblocks factored in for maximum profits.
Poor them though, I'll probably never not use adblocks. lol