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Lee Duna to [email protected]English • 1 year ago

YouTube just made it harder to avoid ads with a tiny skip button

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YouTube just made it harder to avoid ads with a tiny skip button

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YouTube starts making everyone’s Skip button for ads smaller
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    Ironically the linked site doesn’t show content if you’re using an ad blocker.

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      Recently I’ve had sites block content just for rejecting cookies.

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        Quite the norm in Italy, even tho I think it’s illegal

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      What adblocker are you using? ublock on Firefox does fine

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        Edit: I’m not using ublock origin. I forgot I was using my iPhone with AdGuard.

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      Allowing all scripts it works for me, blocking only third-party scripts it shows a popup ad, blocking scripts of the domain too and inline scripts it works and uses less cpu.

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