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1. Ars Technica (arstechnica@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 16-Jan-2024 04:32:43 JST Ars Technica

   YouTube appears to be reducing video and site performance for ad-block users

   YouTube seems to be punishing ad-block users with reduced performance.

   https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/01/youtube-appears-to-be-reducing-video-and-site-performance-for-ad-block-users/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

   • Fubaroque (fubaroque@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 16-Jan-2024 04:36:54 JST Fubaroque

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     @arstechnica Ah, they want to become even less appealing to me? #sure #noproblem 🤣

   • Chancerubbage (chancerubbage@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 16-Jan-2024 05:00:29 JST Chancerubbage

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     @arstechnica I haven’t had a single YouTube vid play through today.
     I don’t actively use any ad blockers to my knowledge. I see YouTube ads all the time generally, using default mobile safari.

   • Chancerubbage (chancerubbage@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 16-Jan-2024 05:06:58 JST Chancerubbage

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     @arstechnica I do not sign in to use Google. I do not sign in to use YouTube. They track me anyway and I’m fine with that. I am not using ad blockers.

     But if they demand account level tracking from all users, they are going to be tracking, and serving ads to , far fewer users and it will be their AND their advertisers loss.

   • Chloe 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 (kuroenekodemon@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 16-Jan-2024 06:12:13 JST Chloe 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

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     @arstechnica Looks like someone wants to be irrelevant by the end of the year. Google, the parent company, already steals my data so why do they want more money?

   • Healthcarer (healthcarer@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 16-Jan-2024 06:34:44 JST Healthcarer

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     @arstechnica So be it. They are the losers since the content is largely evanescent forgettable and supremely non-essential.

   • ByREV (byrev@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 16-Jan-2024 07:30:37 JST ByREV

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     @arstechnica I tested in firefox and it still works fine there.
     A wrong move that will cost!

     - Google secretly manipulates the functionality of a browser,
     - Affects the performance of computer systems,
     - It uses computing resources without user consent
     - increases energy consumption globally

     How legal is what Google is doing?

     This can be an interesting case for the European Court of Justice, which is just waiting to give them another fine of several billions!

     #youtube #google

   • DMTom (dmtomas@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 16-Jan-2024 19:16:50 JST DMTom

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     @arstechnica aye, seemingly even for youtube premium subscribers. I just get random screwups when running on my ff with ublock origins.

   • ISD (isd_d@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 16-Jan-2024 23:26:49 JST ISD

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     @arstechnica can the reduced performance be any worse than the ad-ridden one? 🤓