YouTube tests server-side ads to make your coveted blocker obsolete

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YouTube tests server-side ads to make your coveted blocker obsolete
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YouTube has been spotted testing server-side ads, which could pose a problem to ad blockers.

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Please do this! YouTube will finally be unusable and Google can finally start to die completely :3

Most normies I know watch YouTube with ads already. I sadly don't think this will put much of a dent in YouTube.

That’s the thing, right? They’re fighting a very small minority of users blocking ads/tracking this hard

If corporations are not squeezing every little bit of profit. Then the corporation is losing st making money.

Well the upside is that they're not actually trying to get it to stop, they're just making an effort to please their customers.

Perhaps it's better anyway if our favourite adblock/tracker blocking services don't become popular