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Adblocker use is not responsible for Google's need to constantly impress its shareholders every quarter.

Don't forget YouTube used to let you skip all ads, it wasn't even that long ago.

None of this is the result of blockers. It's the result of Alphabet needing to earn more money and becoming increasingly desperate to snatch up every little bit left on the table.

On the plus side, this is only making it easier to compete with them. They're increasingly turning YouTube into what broadcast television has become; a raging dumpster fire of advertising and propaganda.



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