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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      11 months 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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        11 months 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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          11 months ago

          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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          11 months 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