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YouTube just made it harder to avoid ads with a tiny skip button (www.androidpolice.com)
submitted 9 months ago by throws_lemy@lemmy.nz to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] fluxxom@lemmy.world 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

knocking on wood so far with firefox and ublock/noscript and disabled hardware acceleration, i will get audio but no video when these ads autoplay-- instead of pressing the skip button, i just hit f5 and poof, gone. still more work than i prefer but i hate advertising as much as anything

[–] Johanno@feddit.de 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

In Europe we can use ublock and it works just fine. No ads

[–] ours@lemmy.world 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Google is afraid to overstep in Europe and piss off the EU? Nice.

[–] Johanno@feddit.de 0 points 9 months ago

Google is respecting already existing laws in the EU that prevent them from collecting information about your browser without your consent