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YouTube warns it might make your viewing experience worse if you don't turn off your ad-blocker
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this post was submitted on 22 Nov 2023
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You can however, almost certainly correctly, predict that most people are not going to care enough to bother pirating YouTube videos, especially given how many people watch YouTube on phones or smart TVs now.
Pirates aren't most people. Piracy finds a way among pirates.
I have a separate app just to watch YouTube through which lets me subscribe and all the rest without an account and without ads and it was Uber easy to install.
I think you underestimate how much pirates and the opposition truly hate google and their practices and the lengths they will go to in order to get the content they want.
“Let’s hook Americans on consumerism and turn them into animals, then we can surprise pikachu when said animals eat our faces”
🤷🏻♂️ I just work here
I think you're dramatically overestimating how many people actually care about this, or any tech issue, enough to "truly hate Google". The vast majority of Android users have never sideloaded an app and don't even know what that means, while obviously that's not doable on iPhones at all.
It does happen though. For example, in China, people would reupload YouTube videos to the local video platforms (e.g. bilibili) without permission from the video owners.
phones and tv puts the viewing experience in their app in most cases, too, and out of the reach of effective ad blockers.
desktop pc user share on yt has to be pretty low nowadays.
Firefox mobile+uBlock Origin+Video background play fix.
Asian dude and butterfly meme... Is this a premium.