YouTube is increasing Premium prices in multiple countries, right after an ad-blocker crackdown | You either pay rightfully for the video content you consume, or you live with the ads.::Google is increasing the prices of YouTube Premium and YouTube Music Premium subscriptions in some regions, right after blocking ad-blockers.

  • dack@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    This is why Google has been using their browser monopoly to push their “Web Integrity API”. If that gets adopted, they can fully control the client side and prevent all ad blocking.

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      11 months ago

      Thankfully, Firefox is still a thing. If that comes out, it’s going to be a hell of a lot more popular.

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        11 months ago

        … and dependent on Google ; they may either push that API into FF or push something different so bad that FF would lose even more users.