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YouTube Tests New Kind of Unskippable Ad
YouTube appears to be stepping up its long war on ad blockers this week. The creator of SponsorBlock, a crowdsourced ad blocker, posted a tweet on Wednesday claiming YouTube is experimenting with server-side ad injection. This would inject ads directly into a video’s stream, and render many ad blockers useless. “YouTube is improving its performance…
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YouTube Threatens to Cut Off Ad Blocker Users After Just Three Ad-less Vids
Google is testing how it can stop users from watching ad-free videos as ad revenue declines.
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Which Music Streaming Service Is the Most Ethical?
Following months of controversy surrounding Spotify’s business partnership with Joe Rogan, artists including Neil Young, India Arie and Crosby, Stills and Nash are pulling their music from Spotify’s library, and users are migrating to other platforms. This exodus raises an important question: If you want to move to a more ethical platform, which platform should…
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Even YouTube Is Chilling Out on Weed
In a Wednesday update posted to the company’s ad-friendly content guidelines, YouTube announced it would be easing up on the monetisation restrictions for certain kinds of content dealing with “recreational drugs and drug-related content,” among other topics. Youtube’s been a historically unfriendly place for cannabis-related content, with some creators in the space finding channels suspended…