A Novel Approach to Youtube Ads - eviltoast

Instead of blocking them, this extension speeds them up to x16 and also mutes the ad. Experiencing a 30 second ad in 2 seconds is pretty funny. And it works on Edge and Chrome.

  • kent_eh@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    They’re definitely burning more money than they would gain from winning the battle

    Maybe at the moment, but I suspect part of the motivation for this is that they are trying to prevent another “adpocalypse” type boycott from their advertisers.