ijeff to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish • 2 years agoYouTube's plan backfires, people are installing better ad blockerswww.androidauthority.comexternal-linkmessage-square229arrow-up11.28Kfile-textcross-posted to: becomeme@sh.itjust.workstechnology@lemmy.worldhackernews@derp.footechnology@beehaw.organdroid@lemdro.id
arrow-up11.28Kexternal-linkYouTube's plan backfires, people are installing better ad blockerswww.androidauthority.comijeff to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish • 2 years agomessage-square229file-textcross-posted to: becomeme@sh.itjust.workstechnology@lemmy.worldhackernews@derp.footechnology@beehaw.organdroid@lemdro.id
minus-square@nutsack@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish10•2 years agoit’s only a matter of time before those don’t work anymore
minus-squareUriel238 [all pronouns]linkfedilinkEnglish12•2 years agoIt will always be a technology race. And it’s one that so far the content platforms have lost. Especially given they always abuse the upper hand when they have it, motivating the coding community to solve that problem right quick.
minus-square@nutsack@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish3•2 years agoit’s a race that they will win easily with something like client validation
minus-squareGloomycakelinkfedilinkEnglish8•2 years agoTrue, but there will be New Solutions. Or no YT for me at least. I am not willing to watch a single stupid add. Not one.
minus-square@nutsack@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish1•2 years ago there will be New Solutions. you’re an overflowing toilet of optimism
minus-square𝒍𝒆𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒏linkfedilinkEnglish7•2 years agoBeen using these apps for years, when YT does their crap the community gets it fixed and rolled out within a few days (worst has been two weeks). Lots of thankless devs and contributors dedicated to preventing YouTube from screwing us over!
it’s only a matter of time before those don’t work anymore
It will always be a technology race. And it’s one that so far the content platforms have lost.
Especially given they always abuse the upper hand when they have it, motivating the coding community to solve that problem right quick.
it’s a race that they will win easily with something like client validation
True, but there will be New Solutions. Or no YT for me at least. I am not willing to watch a single stupid add. Not one.
you’re an overflowing toilet of optimism
Been using these apps for years, when YT does their crap the community gets it fixed and rolled out within a few days (worst has been two weeks).
Lots of thankless devs and contributors dedicated to preventing YouTube from screwing us over!