The price of an individual YouTube Premium subscription is increasing $2 to $13.99 per month in the US. YouTube has yet to...
      • Xero@lemmy.worldEnglish
        71·
        11 months ago

        Didn’t they already try to do that with manifest v3? They couldn’t do shit within their own chromium platform, I doubt they’d be able to do it now.

        And even if they could, UBO devs would just find a way around that.

      • Lord_Boffum@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        11 months ago

        Not all of them, currently. And if they were to do that, I’m sure some handy people will find a way around that.

        • legalfinding@lemmynsfw.com
          English
          52·
          11 months ago

          They started blocking people who use ad blockers from watching videos if they don’t disable it on YouTube. I think they just started doing it in the last few weeks

          • eek2121@lemmy.worldEnglish
            3·
            11 months ago

            I have had no issues. Even if they did end up successfully blocking (not likely) the videos are accessible via 3rd party sites/clients. I don’t see Google ever being able to successfully block users without adding a login requirement, and even then…

          • markovianparallax@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            11 months ago

            I think what people who are commenting here aren’t getting is that they’re only doing it to a percent of accounts and not ALL accounts.

        • CriticalMiss@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          11 months ago

          I don’t think Google ever blocked someone for abusing their services (unless it was GCP, which is not meant for personal use anyway), they believe in annoying a person to compliance instead of banning them.