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YouTube is now blocking Ad Blockers – So I just make ads run 16x faster (old.reddit.com)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I thought they backed out of that a couple weeks ago already

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

For now

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

It doesn't really matter they can't implement it if the other browsers aren't on board.

So they haven't so much backed out as much as they've been forced to give up with the idea because no one else wants to do it. Because why would you, it only benefits YouTube?