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YouTube is dedicated to making itself worse; destroys SponsorBlock with ad injection changes (www.youtube.com)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago (2 children)

30% desktop, 15% mobile estimated in the US use ad blockers.
That is not insignificant by any means, even if it's overestimated.

[–] JackbyDev 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I imagine the amount of people using sponsorblock specifically are much smaller.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

https://sponsor.ajay.app/stats/
You're right, but I think it's fairly safe to assume that if one knows about sponsorblock, they're using an ad blocker too.

[–] JackbyDev 5 points 5 months ago

Of course, I was only saying few people used sponsor block compared to (any) general ad blocker.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

So few... I'm going to just start offering to install ad blockers in everyone's phone