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:marseyitsover::marseychingchongitsover::marseyitsaover::marseyitsoveryall: YouTube tests blocking videos unless you disable ad blockers | Hacker News

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35892512

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Asked for comment, a Google spokesperson told IGN that it was a "small experiment."

"We're running a small experiment globally that urges viewers with ad blockers enabled to allow ads on YouTube or try YouTube Premium," they said via email. "Ad blocker detection is not new, and other publishers regularly ask viewers to disable ad blockers."

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reddit discus

https://old.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/13e2cay/youtube_has_started_blocking_ad_blockers/?sort=controversial

https://old.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/13e30b6/youtube_tests_blocking_videos_unless_you_disable/?sort=controversial

https://old.reddit.com/r/youtube/comments/13cfdbi/apparently_ad_blockers_are_not_allowed_on_youtube/?sort=controversial <- This is where it was originally first posted (1k Updoots and 1k cumments)

poster note: I tried adding all the 'its over' to capture the diversity that this decision will affect and was met with this

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i do not feel bad at all :marseyindignant:

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>first reddit link

[–]reddragon105 44 points 3 hours ago

>My 5 year old is baffled and angry when we're at his grandparents because they have regular TV.

I'm in my 30s and I'm baffled and angry whenever I visit my parents and have to put up with regular TV.

[–]Anonymous7056 5† points 2 hours ago

I'm in my 30s and I don't visit my parents.

[–]the_simurgh 6 points 2 hours ago

i'm forty I've made my parents leave my home at weapon point.

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DAE narcissit parentss?? lmao lylgal ululul xD

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YouTube owes me videos for free. Also why are other people narcissists?

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Leftoid cute twink too much of a puss to own a gun

Reddits obsession with making confused youth hate their parents out of projection is almost as sad at their advocation of Christ denial

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