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Google says adblockers caused YouTube views count to drop - this is what adblockers told us really happened (www.techradar.com)
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[–] 28 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Even on a computer without ad blocker (work laptop, chrome browser)

the number of times i say "nah i don't need to see that" as soon as thes annoying ads comes up before the video...

The decline probably has very little to do with ad blockers.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    Exactly.

    If I am forced to see ads, especially intrusive or page filling ones, I will not continue.

    I watched lots of YouTube in the past.

    When they started inserting ads into the videos (not channel sponsored stuff), the camel started getting weak.

    When they started requiring sign-ins or blocking access when using a proxy that was the straw.

    I don't use YouTube anymore.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago

    The decline was very sudden, almost instantaneous, and can be traced back to the exact date a block list, used by most major desktop ad blockers, added the YouTube View Counter API endpoint to their list.

    But sure… nothing to do with ad blockers.

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