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Google blames ad blockers for crashing YouTube view counts (www.techradar.com)
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[–] IceFoxX@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

I use yt by default without ads, shorts, etc. on the home page only suitable recommendation ( or on the desktop none at all ). I recently had to reflash my phone and then went to yt. So wow I saw the garbage hslde and immediately closed it again and then configured my phone first for Ad & trash free yt