• legalfinding@lemmynsfw.com
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      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.world
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        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…

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          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

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        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.world
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      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.