The price of an individual YouTube Premium subscription is increasing $2 to $13.99 per month in the US. YouTube has yet to...
    • Xero@lemmy.worldEnglish
      71·
      1 year ago

      Didn’t they already try to do that with manifest v3? They couldn’t do shit within their own chromium platform, I doubt they’d be able to do it now.

      And even if they could, UBO devs would just find a way around that.

    • Lord_Boffum@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      1 year ago

      Not all of them, currently. And if they were to do that, I’m sure some handy people will find a way around that.

      • legalfinding@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
        52·
        1 year ago

        They started blocking people who use ad blockers from watching videos if they don’t disable it on YouTube. I think they just started doing it in the last few weeks

        • eek2121@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          1 year ago

          I have had no issues. Even if they did end up successfully blocking (not likely) the videos are accessible via 3rd party sites/clients. I don’t see Google ever being able to successfully block users without adding a login requirement, and even then…

          • Candybar121@lemmy.worldEnglish
            2·
            1 year ago

            If they are dumb enough to pull API access like reddit and twitter, they’d be opening themselves up to real competition for the first time ever

        • markovianparallax@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          I think what people who are commenting here aren’t getting is that they’re only doing it to a percent of accounts and not ALL accounts.

      • CriticalMiss@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        I don’t think Google ever blocked someone for abusing their services (unless it was GCP, which is not meant for personal use anyway), they believe in annoying a person to compliance instead of banning them.