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ijeff@lemdro.id to Technology@beehaw.orgEnglish · 2 years ago

YouTube's plan backfires, people are installing better ad blockers

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People are installing and uninstalling ad blockers in record high numbers as a result of YouTube's anti-ad blocking efforts.

cross-posted from: https://lemdro.id/post/2883134 (!android@lemdro.id)

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    Only reason they are seeing so many uninstalls is because ublock origin is the big one that works and that requires uninstalling other blockers to get it to not be detected.

    Ublock origin doesn’t track uninstalls but it has gained quite a few users in the last 8 days

    https://web.archive.org/web/20231027074108/https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/ublock-origin/

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    https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/ublock-origin/

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      Yeah a more plausible explanation here is that people are installing various adblockers until they find one that works, which is why many are seeing both more installs and more uninstalls.

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