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[–] DarkThoughts@kbin.social 13 points 2 years ago (1 children)

They'll soon also block you from watching videos if you are using an adblocker.

[–] MixedRaceHumanAI@lemm.ee 8 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Well, no shite. I'll use Chromium without adblock and signed-in account, then. I'll separate my YouTube and personal web browsing... oh wait, Firefox Containers exist.

[–] DarkThoughts@kbin.social 9 points 2 years ago

I'm definitely not going to watch ads if there's no way around them. I'd just move on. The platform has been on a constant downfall for me over the past decade anyway. Most of it is just clickbait shit and the recommendation algorithms became worse and worse too. Same with the search function. They don't even allow you to search for explicit terms using quotation marks anymore and I still don't understand why they did that. All my search results are muddled with unrelated garbage now, often times in front of the stuff I actually want to find.