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YouTube ads are about to get even longer and they’ll be unskippable - Dexerto (www.dexerto.com)
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YouTube viewers will soon have to sit through even longer ads, with Google rolling out new 30-second unskippable spots on a popular app.

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[–] 15 points 8 months ago (1 child)

And the reason is that those ad-blockers are based on DNS block lists, and YouTube ads are served by the same servers that also serve videos.

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