Google clamps down on VPN workarounds for cheaper YouTube Premium subscriptions - eviltoast
  • Ilandar@aussie.zone
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    5 months ago

    The article is only based on a handful of accounts from reddit, but it would be quite funny considering how many people I’ve encountered who do this and think they are geniuses or morally superior because they don’t use an ad-blocker. Let’s see how they feel after a fee hike. :)

    • Rykzon@discuss.tchncs.de
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      5 months ago

      I don’t really understand who you are getting at here. Everyone I know uses this combined with regular ad blockers. Anyway, once they figure out how to properly inject ads into the stream blocking is going to get really hard.

      • michael_palmer@lemmy.sdf.org
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        5 months ago

        I would not pay anyway. This is a principled position after I was shown a fraudulent advertisement 10 times in one evening (which used children with cancer to manipulate emotions)