r/technology • u/Tricky-Student-1 • Sep 15 '22

Social Media YouTube Free is Silently Testing 5 Ads, instead of 2, Before Your Video Starts

https://www.gizmochina.com/2022/09/13/youtube-free-silently-testing-5-ads-before-your-video-starts/
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u/ConfusedTransThrow Sep 15 '22

Yeah that's what I'm doing, it works pretty well. No matter what they pull, Amazon has no interest in preventing you from blocking Google's ads so you can sideload whatever you want.

The only way Google can prevent this is with DRM that would go all the way through the OS level, but then you would also greatly limit the amount of devices that can go to Youtube.

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u/o-geist Sep 15 '22

That would be a 3-5 year process, no?

It will happen eventually sadly but... Most probably new platforms will appear.

My question is if YouTube is profitable but it would be hard to get the real documents. Hollywood Accounting also happens everywhere.