withersailor@aussie.zone to Technology@beehaw.orgEnglish · 1 year agoYouTube could be testing a three-strikes policy for ad blockingwww.androidauthority.comexternal-linkmessage-square72fedilinkarrow-up145arrow-down10cross-posted to: hdev@lemmy.worldfucksubscriptions@lemmy.world
arrow-up145arrow-down1external-linkYouTube could be testing a three-strikes policy for ad blockingwww.androidauthority.comwithersailor@aussie.zone to Technology@beehaw.orgEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square72fedilinkcross-posted to: hdev@lemmy.worldfucksubscriptions@lemmy.world
minus-squareTetra@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up7·1 year agoGuess I’m getting banned then, I will never disable my adblockers, the internet (and Youtube especially) is goddamn unusable without them.
minus-squarelemmyvore@feddit.nllinkfedilinkarrow-up0·1 year agoI don’t quite understand how they’re gonna “ban” you if you’re not logged in. Which you can accomplish with an incognito tab. What are they gonna do, block the IP?
minus-squarerwhitisissle@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up0·1 year ago What are they gonna do, block the IP? This is exactly what they will do, yes.
minus-squarestom@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 year agoOh no! I’ll have to restart my router and come back 60 seconds later with another IP! Let them block the poor rando who gets my IP next. (They won’t do this for exactly that reason)
minus-squarenevemsenki@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 year agoWith carrier grade NATs, they’d block a bunch of people, even subscribers…
Guess I’m getting banned then, I will never disable my adblockers, the internet (and Youtube especially) is goddamn unusable without them.
I don’t quite understand how they’re gonna “ban” you if you’re not logged in. Which you can accomplish with an incognito tab. What are they gonna do, block the IP?
This is exactly what they will do, yes.
Oh no! I’ll have to restart my router and come back 60 seconds later with another IP! Let them block the poor rando who gets my IP next.
(They won’t do this for exactly that reason)
With carrier grade NATs, they’d block a bunch of people, even subscribers…