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Isn't YouTube bound to win the war against adblockers? (lemm.ee)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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I often see the sentiment that YouTube and adblockers will be forever locked in a cat-and-mouse game. However, for many years now, Twitch has entirely eliminated adblocking on desktop web.

What is stopping YouTube from replicating Twitch’s advertising strategy of embedding ads directly into their videos?

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[–] [email protected] 70 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Twitch has entirely eliminated adblocking.

Lmao, no they haven't. For example.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I'm not OP and I don't understand a thing but ironically Ublock blocked me from opening that link

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago

As another commenter said, that's because it's not the official site!

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yeah.... Pretty sure it's just like how antivirus blocks certain apps that have code that looks suspicious.

Or it's not the official site.

The link goes to the revanced app.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yeah re-vanced and their affiliate urls got tossed into a few blocklists annoyingly.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No, it's because that's a bootleg site. There's a ton of them for revanced for some reason

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

True, but I've found all their urls to be blocked (.app .info and .net) and all three distribute the official app(s) (verified by comparing the apk hashes).

Doesn't really matter which one you use.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

Annoyingly, it’s more intentionally. Youtube has people working both sides, it makes it easier when two services they’re fighting start blaming each other instead of focusing on YouTube.