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YouTube is Losing The War Against Adblockers (www.howtogeek.com)

submitted 3 months ago by AnActOfCreation@programming.dev to c/technology@lemmy.world

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YouTube is intensifying efforts to combat adblockers, including blocking video playback and warning users of potential account suspension.
Increased ads on YouTube have driven many users to adblockers, hurting both YouTube’s ad revenue and content creators reliant on ad-based income.
Despite these measures, many users are leaving YouTube or finding workarounds, leading creators to seek alternative revenue streams off-platform.

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[-] TheGalacticVoid@lemm.ee 2 points 3 months ago

Watch time affects your recommendations, so this isn't a great solution

[-] MrVilliam@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

After watching, click do not recommend and say that it's because you've already watched it. Problem solved.

[-] TheGalacticVoid@lemm.ee 0 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

And now YouTube thinks you hate that video, so your recommendations are less relevant unless you're willing to do the survey every time.

[-] MrVilliam@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

It's barely more work than just clicking "Not interested." though. Just click "tell us why" and "I've already watched this video" and it knows that you didn't dislike it. Trust me, I've been doing this for a while now and it still properly recommends videos. It just cleans up your recommended queue because it knows that you've already watched those ones in particular. I've watched a lot of music deep dive content this way because the ads stupidly will interrupt at the worst moments and ruin the flow, but that kind of content still shows up on my feed all the time.

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