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ijeff@lemdro.id to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 years ago

YouTube is now fully blocking ad blockers around the world

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YouTube is now fully blocking ad blockers around the world

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ijeff@lemdro.id to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 years ago
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Since May, YouTube has ramped up its block of ad blockers and the company has now fully launched this policy worldwide...

cross-posted from: https://lemdro.id/post/2787773 (!google@lemdro.id)

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    purged the caches

    Do this daily.

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      I only had to do it once. Haven’t seen the pop up since.

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      Am I the only one that clears cookies, caches, and history on exit?

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        No. There are dozens of us! Dozens!

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        deleted by creator

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          I just turn those off :-D

          I find stuff like that to be entirely useless as most site exploits happen at the server level and have essentially nothing to do with front end operations. Betty plugging in that USB is what you need to worry about.

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