YouTube's plan backfires, people are installing better ad blockers

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SponsorBlock Landing Page
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SponsorBlock

SponsorBlock is an open-source crowdsourced browser extension to skip sponsor segments in YouTube videos.
Pricing:
- Open Source
During this debacle I did discover SponsorBlock - https://sponsor.ajay.app/ This is different from YouTube platform ad-blocking, instead it is crowd-sourced auto-skip of in-video sponsorship messages etc. Quite configurable, really appreciating it so far.

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Mastodon Landing Page

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Mastodon

Mastodon is a decentralized, open source social network. This is just one part of the network, run by the main developers of the project It is not focused on any particular niche interest - everyone is welcome!

I have my adblock on for targeted ads. I believe the lengths that these companies go through to profile you to serve you ads are terribly invasive. Even if you pay for YT Premium, the tracking does not stop: https://mastodon.social/@nixCraft/111257004092595145 My adblocker is off for DuckDuckGo. DDG does not track my activity across websites. I'm one of the few suckers here paying for YT Premium. This is what I got rewarded with for being a paying customer: https://mastodon.social/@lazycouchpotato/111347456188566575 Precious screen real estate ruined with Shorts. They've set themselves into this monopoly position leaving you nowhere else to go, and are dead set on making the experience as terrible as possible to extract every little bit of "engagement" out of you. I don't sympathize with Google for users wanting to use an ad blocker on YT. I'd gladly support YT if any other half-decent company owned it.

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