Remember when Google introduced text-only ads to replace flashing animated banners and pop-up ads popular at the time? I didn’t mind those and I didn’t need an adblocker.

Nowadays YouTube is the primary reason I have to use an adblocker. It is literally unusable with all the ads.

  • thermal_shock
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    24 days ago

    I won’t watch YouTube without an adblocker. Used to pay for premium for years through VPN in turkey, was like $4/ month for family plan. But now they region lock payment methods. So back to ublock origin and Firefox in addition to a pihole setup that blocks hundreds of thousands of ad sites. Fuck advertisements.

    • @Ledericas@lemm.ee
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      529 days ago

      they also punish users who used adblock and then disable by increasing the amount of ads you see.

      • thermal_shock
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        124 days ago

        It will never be disabled for that domain lol. I there will always be ways around it.