I don’t really use facebook anymore so couldn’t care less; but so happened to log in today to change my password and saw this on my front page.

  • spudwart@spudwart.comEnglish
    531·
    8 months ago

    So this is how it will start.

    First it will be a back and forth war of Anti-adblockers vs Adblockers

    Then when the Anti-Adblockers start to lose, which they will, then they’ll come crying to various governments with massic PAC campaigns among other insane garbage about how “Adblockers are Piracy!” and that they need to be banned.

    This will not end well.

    • phoenixz@lemmy.ca
      212·
      8 months ago

      It’ll end well enough. People will just stop using their shitty platforms. They’ll start looking for alternatives, from which there are loads, find that there are platforms that don’t require ads, and go there.

      Those that stay deserve the shit they get

      • SokathHisEyesOpen@lemmy.mlEnglish
        191·
        8 months ago

        You’re massively overestimating the conviction of the average internet user. They’ll do whatever they’re told is cool to do, including visiting a site that is nothing but ads.

        • squidspinachfootball@lemm.ee
          5·
          8 months ago

          The closest thing I’ve seen is lbry, where some creators have mirrored their YouTube accounts. But it feels like a very small number of them uploading there.

          E to add: As with all alternative platforms, it’s also home to a lot of content that was kicked off of more mainstream platforms for one reason or another.

        • governorkeagan@lemdro.idEnglish
          1·
          8 months ago

          TILvidsis a peertube instance with a focus high quality educational content. There is vastly less content compared to YouTube but the videos that are there tend to be really good.

          This should help you get started with peertube

        • spudwart@spudwart.comEnglish
          24·
          8 months ago

          For desktop I use the FreeTube client. For mobile, there’s various options line NewPipe and Revanced. But these are all Android Only.

    • MuchPineapples@lemmy.world
      13·
      8 months ago

      Eventually they will just use server side authentication that the ads were displayed properly and the best an adblocker can do is draw a grey rectangle over it and mute your tabs sound.

    • Echo Dot@feddit.uk
      131·
      8 months ago

      The thing is, if they get really stupid with it I could just go ahead and install pi hole. I haven’t already because it’s a bit of a fiddle on and I don’t apparently don’t need it yet. There’s no way for the government to mandate against that, unless they actually want to ban me from owning a computer, Which obviously won’t really work.

      • SkepticElliptic@beehaw.org
        6·
        8 months ago

        Pihole hasn’t worked with YouTube in almost a decade. They changed their ad service to their own domain, so there isn’t any way to distinguish between an ad and a regular video on the domain level that pihole uses.