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[โ€“] Gsus4@programming.dev 4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (3 children)

Youtube is aware that serving ads to people who hate ads is going to reduce these brands' value, right? I thought that was the reason they were ok with adblockers before...

[โ€“] Nelots@lemm.ee 7 points 5 months ago

If the amount of people that just put up with ads currently instead of switching to Firefox is anything to go by, I think the number of people who truly care is less that you might think. Especially when YouTube is such a monopoly.

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