this post was submitted on 21 Nov 2023
13 points (93.3% liked)

Hacker News

3943 readers
3 users here now

This community serves to share top posts on Hacker News with the wider fediverse.

Rules0. Keep it legal

  1. Keep it civil and SFW
  2. Keep it safe for members of marginalised groups

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
[email protected]
13
YouTube punishes ad-blocker users with slower videos on non-Chrome browsers (www.androidcentral.com)
submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
3 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

There is a discussion on Hacker News, but feel free to comment here as well.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Wonder if they will ever just block non-Chromium based browsers, you know, for the security and integrity of the site and all.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

If they can get away with it, yes, definitely.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

They wont unless it's a near total monopoly. They're always aiming for 10% gains every year for their investors.

The amount of people who use ad blockers is somewhere around 10% according to some articles, so I'm guessing this ad block push is to scoop up 10% more in ad revenue