I remember there was a bug (or intended behavior?) of people getting their accounts banned for certain kinds of mundane chat messages in live streams and I’m a little spooked that the same will happen with the recent escalation in the adblocking arms race.
Do it, cowards. Free me from that coil
Hmm. Hadn’t considered it. But it is a reason to transition everything to protonmail.
It’s possible, but personally I never use my account when using youtube anymore. I just remember the channels I like and check if they’ve posted anything, and if something is age-gated, I just use youtube-dlp (yt-dlp) to rip the video without having to engage with google accounts.
yes
Depends on how many users are actually using an adblocker. Last I saw, about 10 million users were using Ublock or adblockers in general. If we assume that reflects the real number of users, then it’s a tiny percentage of Google product users and banning them isn’t that big of a deal - unless large companies also use adblockers in which case, it’s probably easier to surrender than to keep fighting.
