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About Louis Rossmann

Louis Rossmann is a repair shop owner and a vocal supporter of the Right To Repair movement. He runs a YouTube channel with a variety of content - from board repair videos, to news and updates in the technology space.

His insightful and reasonable opinions on technology and product ownership tend to attract a lot of attention.

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YouTube's adblock war is backfiring in the worst way possible 🤣 (discuss.tchncs.de)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by Stormfur@discuss.tchncs.de to c/louisrossmann@lemmy.world

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https://m.youtube.com/watch?si=b8gFTiAMR95D1x3E&v=_GARcKCaUfI&feature=youtu.be

Invidious link https://invidious.privacydev.net/watch?v=_GARcKCaUfI

His cited articles https://www.wired.com/story/youtubes-ad-blocker-crackdown-spurs-record-uninstalls

https://www.androidauthority.com/youtube-ad-block-installs-3382289

With YouTube cracking down on Adblockers two things are happening, people are finding out adblockers exist at all and people are moving to better adblockers that can still block YouTube ads. One example I can think of is Ublock Origin and their efforts to keep it working blocking ads on YouTube.

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[–] Send_me_nude_girls@feddit.de 7 points 2 years ago

YouTube vs the world. Not sure what Google was expecting to happen.

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