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YouTube is cracking down on consumers’ favorite loophole - Adblockers::undefined

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[–] JewGoblin@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

we will win, sail the high seas

[–] huginn@feddit.it 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Pretty sure most YouTube videos will be hard to pirate. Big creators sure... But most others I doubt.

[–] Sir_Kevin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It is trivial to download youtube videos.

[–] huginn@feddit.it -1 points 1 year ago

Yes but that's not sailing the high seas

[–] JewGoblin@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

I wasn't really referring to downloading, but rather Smartubenext, and Revanced

[–] cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago

I wouldn't say hard, just that nobody pirates them because they're easy to ad block.