ijeff@lemdro.id to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 11 months agoYouTube is now fully blocking ad blockers around the world9to5google.comexternal-linkmessage-square349fedilinkarrow-up1827arrow-down138file-textcross-posted to: [email protected]
arrow-up1789arrow-down1external-linkYouTube is now fully blocking ad blockers around the world9to5google.comijeff@lemdro.id to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 11 months agomessage-square349fedilinkfile-textcross-posted to: [email protected]
minus-squareyesterdayshero@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9arrow-down3·11 months agoSounds like you haven’t watched a lot of free to air tv haha
minus-squaremakingStuffForFun@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up16·11 months agoI can honestly say, apart from seeing it on on the background when visiting parents or similar, that I haven’t watched free to air TV in maybe 15 years. Been streaming or downloading all that time.
minus-squareyesterdayshero@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down2·11 months agoI hardly watch it either. Just found it funny all the complaints above could be applied to what free to air tv has been doing for decades.
minus-squaremakingStuffForFun@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down1·11 months agoAgree with you completely.
minus-squareyesterdayshero@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·11 months agoYet they still get around it through sound mixing. Any regulations against using jingles or having ads interrupt what you’re watching?
minus-squarewooki@lemmynsfw.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down1·11 months agoFree to air is heavily regulated in my country if it had a fraction of the fraudulent grifter ads Google would be shut down
minus-squareyata@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down1·edit-211 months agoAds in those are also regulated in civilised countries.
minus-squareRelentlessArts@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down1·11 months agoLuckily all that is prosecutable by Ofcom here so it very rarely happens.
Sounds like you haven’t watched a lot of free to air tv haha
I can honestly say, apart from seeing it on on the background when visiting parents or similar, that I haven’t watched free to air TV in maybe 15 years. Been streaming or downloading all that time.
I hardly watch it either. Just found it funny all the complaints above could be applied to what free to air tv has been doing for decades.
Agree with you completely.
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Yet they still get around it through sound mixing. Any regulations against using jingles or having ads interrupt what you’re watching?
Free to air is heavily regulated in my country if it had a fraction of the fraudulent grifter ads Google would be shut down
Ads in those are also regulated in civilised countries.
Luckily all that is prosecutable by Ofcom here so it very rarely happens.