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YouTube warns it might make your viewing experience worse if you don't turn off your ad-blocker
(www.businessinsider.com)
this post was submitted on 22 Nov 2023
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I kinda want to see what the folks behind ublock origin would do if they did do that...
It could be that they don't have any recourse. At some point, I think Google will decide that the data they can harvest from people blocking ads will not be worth the cost of the server time and bandwidth. uBlock Origin has been doing well so far, but Google has far more money and resources to throw into this than they do. They're going up against a Goliath and in these cases, Goliath often wins.
I'm not saying I want any of this to happen. I just know Google.