YouTube’s Ad Blocker Crackdown Is Getting Harder to Dodge::The video platform now requires users to disable their ad blockers with an immovable pop-up.

  • V0lD@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    You’re all getting quite hung up about someone voicing that they’re not ready to switch to your preferred browser tbh

    Like, it’s not that you are negatively affected by me having UX preferences

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      1 year ago

      Yes, we are. Chrome holding the Internet hostage affects everyone, and you not switching because of some insane petty bullshit is ruining the internet for everyone.

      It would be one thing if the functionality didn’t exist, but not switching because of some extremely minor visual effect is wild.

      Everyone is like this too. “Oh I tried Firefox but the X button is the wrong color”. “I tried Firefox but the tabs are weirdly shaped”, "I tried Firefox but

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        You’ll get more flies with honey than vinegar.

        Foss advocates showing once again how bad they are at persuading people.

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        1 year ago

        Correct. That is why I am not switching

        Besides, the EU is shown time and time again that it will protect its citizens if the megacorps overstep their boundaries, so the claim that chrome holds too much power is bs