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YouTube on TVs is cramming ads down your throat even when pausing videos (www.androidauthority.com)

submitted 1 month ago by moe90@feddit.nl to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

This is why we can’t relent

What are "we" doing? Not uninstalling our ad blockers? Its not as though people are boycotting the site. Just use Piped, ffs. No ads whatsoever. It's a late-00s YouTube experience.

[–] uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 month ago

We the public have to keep making better ad blockers that better detect ads and prevent them from being displayed (or in some cases, activating their malware payload).

YouTube is trying to either detect ad blockers and deny service, or change the insertion paradigm so that ads cannot be blocked. We cannot let them succeed doing either.