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ai_assisted_dev on June 21, 2025 | parent | context | favorite | on: YouTube's new anti-adblock measures

Perfectly fair. It's not like YouTube is some free open source platform. Infra needs to be paid, creators need to be paid, they have a whole eco-system. Why not just pay for premium if you use it that much?

nadermx on June 21, 2025 | [–]

What's the actual % of people using ad blockers anyways? I feel it cant even be near double digits.

usernamed7 on June 21, 2025 | [–]

I'd pay for it if youtube was worth it (it's not)

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