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

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[-] NuclearNoggin@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

you said you weren’t using an Ad Blocker but getting pop-ups saying you were. it’s because the pi-hole is blocking ads at a DNS level so the site detects that and sends that message instead.

uBlock will block the whole visual element FTW.

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