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YouTube's plan backfires, people are installing better ad blockers (www.androidauthority.com)

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[-] TWeaK@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

In video ads, even those by the content creators themselves, can generally be dealt with using SponsorBlock. This is community driven, users mark the segment of the video that's just sponsor filler or credits or whatever.

You can even get a NewPipe fork that includes SponsorBlock.

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