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youtube getting more aggressive.. i've got firefox and ublock but this shit is still coming up

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[-] uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 19 points 10 months ago

Currently with Firefox uBlock and am getting no pop-ups for three days now (this after pop-up nags with a five-second delay).

Not saying you are not having trouble, but I think this is a fight YouTube is going to lose.

[-] 31337@sh.itjust.works 6 points 10 months ago

I think they are A/B testing to see how people react. I have gotten pop-ups and my coworker wasn't getting them while having the same IP address. I haven't gotten the "x videos left" popup yet. I think it'd be pretty easy for youtube to make ad blocking very hard; they're just testing the waters right now.

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