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Google's anti-adblocker campaign (literature.cafe)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Have they given up already? I haven’t seen the popup in a couple of days (touch wood). For a few weeks, it showed up every time I used a logged in account and made the service unusable.

Maybe I’ve just stopped trying to watch monetized videos.

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[–] Pantrygheist 7 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

No popups for me on FF with unlock origin, but something weird happened yesterday, all videos on a playlist didn't play at all, they just skipped. Edit: Found out there was another extension triggering YouTube's ad detection, all's well now.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

That could’ve been my issue as well.

[–] Pantrygheist 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

For me it was enhancer for YouTube, it had a basic ad blocker that I had forgotten.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Same here. I’d completely forgotten that I had it running