OT rant: Youtube appears to be ad-free again. Was: Why is youtube-dl blocked

[Jeffrey Walton]

On Sun, Nov 5, 2023 at 9:44 PM Owen Thomas <owen.paul.thomas at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Fri, 3 Nov 2023 at 09:19, Owen Thomas <owen.paul.thomas at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> I've been scared on to Youtube, and I'm about to be scared off it.
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> After a week, I pay a visit to Youtube and find the ad-free experience has been largely restored. Must be the ad blocker pixies doing their work. Bravo!
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> Almost 50, I remain philosophical because I spent about the first ~45 of them living without Youtube. Did that well enough.

Louis Rossman just posted a video about the situation: YouTube's
adblock war is backfiring in the worst way possible,
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_GARcKCaUfI>.

Jeff