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  • YouTube is intensifying efforts to combat adblockers, including blocking video playback and warning users of potential account suspension.
  • Increased ads on YouTube have driven many users to adblockers, hurting both YouTube’s ad revenue and content creators reliant on ad-based income.
  • Despite these measures, many users are leaving YouTube or finding workarounds, leading creators to seek alternative revenue streams off-platform.
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[–] kokesh@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I'm getting Playback failed from time to time on reVanced. Maybe after 5mins of every 3rd video. I just go to my watch history, open the video again and it continues. Mildly annoying, but good trade-off for not having ads.

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[–] IndustryStandard@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago

There's a large war going on behind my uBlock plugin.

[–] Desistance@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago
[–] MrSoup@lemmy.zip 7 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

They successfully broke almost every Piped instance.

[–] x00z@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

They kept trying to ruin my experience so I've switched to Invidious and Odysee.

Invidious only for the content creators that don't crosspost to Odysee yet.

[–] xelar@lemmy.ml 6 points 10 months ago (4 children)

Meanwhile Odysee goes ads free...

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