Clever workaround speeds YouTube ads up instead of blocking them [Video]
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A super clever workaround for YouTube's crackdown on ad blockers sees YouTube ads sped up dramatically instead of blocking them.

Instead of blocking them, this extension speeds them up to x16 and also mutes the ad. Experiencing a 30 second ad in 2 seconds is pretty funny. And it works on Edge and Chrome.

  • SmoothIsFast@citizensgaming.comEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    It would work the way the internet worked before google and facebook monetised monitoring everyone to sell ads

    You mean the ads on the side of the screen that told you to play some interactive game in them so they could install malware? Ads of some form were always a thing on the internet, first in forum posts then to website ads then Google started essentially buying ad space on other websites, and paid you for it. I hate Google but when that first came out at least most ads weren’t filled with malware at that point.

    • Womble@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      Yes ads have always existed in some areas of the internet but weren’t central to the entire thing, they were more usually a way of earning a tiny bit extra on the side.

      • SmoothIsFast@citizensgaming.comEnglish
        21·
        1 year ago

        Sure but it’s not like it was all sunshine and roses either, there were more frequent malicious ads but then again maybe those who are brain dead clicking everything in site (pun intended) should get blocked from the internet with a ransom attack encrypting their drive lmaoo