YouTube puts third-party clients on notice: Show ads or get blocked

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YouTube puts third-party clients on notice: Show ads or get blocked
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It's funny how this comes after Chrome's switch to Manifest V3, which makes ad blocking not possible on Chrome and was purely for security reasons and not for disabling ad blockers. Now that Chrome users can't block ads on the first-party site, they're going after third-party clients. Such coincidental timing.

"security reasons" is the classic cop-out for making users lives more miserable.

Like what are you gonna do, argue that you don't care about security?

Has that actually rolled out yet? I thought it was only announced and planned for late this year.

was purely for security reasons and not for disabling ad blockers.

I had not heard of Manifest v3 and actually can't tell if you're being sarcastic or not. I guess you are.

Man they're fucking out of their minds!!!

I only care about how this will affect Floorp's user agent spoofing abilities thought πŸ˜Άβ€πŸŒ«οΈπŸŒ«οΈ

They're not being sarcastic, they are repeating Google's (bs) justification

They are being sarcastic, with the emphasis on "purely", while saying Google's justification. It's exactly to point out it's bs.

yes exactly what sneezycat said. I was being sarcastic and pointing out that Manifest V3 was always a crackdown on ad blocking and nothing else.

Sure, I guess I maintain its that's not what sarcasm is but we do agree on the point

If it is not sarcasm then the justification is not bs. And OP agrees it is sarcasm.

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