Hi all,
As the title says, YouTube is trying to restrict ad-blockers. But the ones that I am using are freely available through Chrome WebStore. Both Chrome and YouTube are owned by Google. Why would a company try to fight an issue with one subsidiary while giving us an out for the same issue through another?
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Likely because if Alphabet (The owners of both Google and YouTube), had Google make changes to the most popular browser in the world, to help push Google Ads the most popular ad service in the world, on YouTube the worlds largest digital video distribution network in the world. They might open themselves up to antitrust legislation, and have to start paying fines.
They would rather make changes more discretely.
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