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Windows Phone gets revenge on YouTube from the grave by helping users bypass its ad-blocker-blocker::Windows Phone to the rescue. A lot of YouTube users want to know how to get around the new annoying YouTube pop-up telling viewers to disable their ad-blocker.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 41 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And Google updating this old code in 3, 2, 1

[โ€“] [email protected] 35 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Probably just deleting it ๐Ÿ˜‚

It's a shame, the original windows.phone concept was great

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It was great. Even if I didn't like the idea of "yet another walled garden, funded by a company known for its track record against open source software (this was during Ballmer era)", I really liked the design and how fluid the interface was. It could have become another player in the mobile market and lessen the practical duopoly. Firefox OS tried this too, but it also went under.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It was great until people were forced to buy a new phone instead of receiving updates

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Oh, how they handled their phone devision was awful. The original "how would we build a new phone OS from scratch" bit was awesome though