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Any idea what Google are doing? Is this because I dont use Chrome (use Firefox)? I've no adblockers. (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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So this started coming up today. On every video. I can (so far) click the "x" and remove it to watch (still see 2 ads before the video, and one after 4 minutes - ruins music on YT), but did click the "Report issue" only for the dialogue box not to work.

I found a link to a that said 11% use adblock. Thats not a lot.Maaayyyybe there is a problem with the amount of ads youtube forces down our throats for even short videos. ๐Ÿคทโ€โ™‚๏ธ

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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Seems to still be working for me. At least I haven't encountered any notices yet.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They are targeting a portion of users, but once you're chosen to be the test target, you'll see.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, I just commented to another user about the same things. Seems they're doing some A/B testing or something like it. No worries, I understand uBlock has an update available that addresses it already.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Alright thanks for the notice!