YouTube intensifies fight against ad blockers showing pop-ups, and users are frustrated | Blocking ad-block users

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YouTube intensifies fight against ad blockers showing pop-ups, and users are frustrated
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If you have any stored payment methods on Google Pay, I'd remove them. Whose to say they won't try to sneak some clause in their TOS that says if you use an ad blocker, they will charge you for Premium. removes tinfoil hat

That would be incredibly illegal and is pointless hyperbole.

Exactly, they might get fined $300,000 for making $2,000,000,000 in profit.

They wouldn't dare!

Ya, cause people aren't going to issue charge backs. They'll just shrug and say "you caught me!"

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Whose to say they won’t try to sneak some clause in their TOS that says if you use an ad blocker, they will charge you for Premium

Meanwhile in EU: "Doom music intensifies..."

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