Comments by "James LaBarre" (@SenileOtaku) on "They Finally Shut It Down" video.

  1.  @logiclrd  Paying for Premium only rewards Google for their user-hostile, anti-competitive and crooked behavior. It's a much better idea to simply undermine their system.
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  2. I didn't block ads on YouTube UNTIL they started the bullshit of interrupting videos mid-roll, regardless of whether it was mid-sentence or even mid-word. I had been willing to accept pre-roll and post-roll ads since I could watch the video itself without interruption. But once the mid-roll ads came along, I cut them off completely. I am OK with reasonable advertising,, but when they pull that crap of auto-play loud videos, popover pages and such, that is just unacceptable. If YouTube blocks my video viewing because of ad block, I'll just spend MORE time on Odysee, Rumble, and other sites (or I'll just watch more on Crunchyroll and Netflix, which I am paying for). And the problem I find with a lot of anti-ad-blocker sites is that I actually don't have an ad blocker (except for my YouTube-specific ad blockers), but I DO have cookie filtering. And that triggers ad-block detection on many occasions. Which means I couldn't readily disable it for them anyway. And if they're triggering my cookie filters, then they're likely serving malicious content.
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