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UltraSane
9mo ago
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I have every right to try to block YouTube ads and YouTube has every right to try to defeat whatever I do.
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squigz
9mo ago
No they do not have that right. They do not have the right to try to circumvent what I'm telling my browser to do. If they don't like what it's doing, they can block me from the platform.
UltraSane
OP
9mo ago
At the most fundamental they have the right to send or not send video data to you.
dbbk
9mo ago
They could very easily just ban ad blockers from the Chrome extension store, but they haven't
UltraSane
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9mo ago
Serious people use Firefox and uBlock Origin.
redml
9mo ago
im sure that's for antitrust reasons.
rasz
9mo ago
Problem is Google also controls what used to be called "user agent".
UltraSane
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9mo ago
I use Firefox and uBlock Origin
k12sosse
9mo ago
And they too, to try to stop people using their platform from doing so.
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