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I haven’t watched an ad on youtube for at least the last 5 years. Ad blocking is cyber security.

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They have been pushing adblock detecting technologies in some regions. I’m preparing for having to stop using Youtube when they roll it out here.

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Here in Austria I get the anti adblocker message every single time I visit so I don’t care much anymore and just dropped it. I’m rather watching shows now lol

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Also in Austria here and no ads for me with uBlock Origin + DNS block on my firewall.

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What adblocker are you using? I’m also in Austria but haven’t got it

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Luckily Libretube and Piped still work so I haven’t had to visit the normal Youtube site in ages, I do know Youtube increased their aggression towards third party frontends too tho so we will see how long the Newpipe extractor will work I guess!

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I don’t think you’ll be losing out on much. Their algorithm has gone to shit recently and finding anything new has become a chore.

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I’ve never had history on so their algorithm has always been ass for me. Just depended on subs.

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Ad blocking is basic hygiene at this point.

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I recently had to adjust ublock origin manually after ads started popping up on youtube.

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Preach!

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