It garbles advertisers’ data as a result, but you must disable uBlock Origin to run it; they can’t work simultaneously. I recently moved to it and, so far, am never looking back!

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    Not sure how true it was, but there was a YouTuber claiming that their videos were getting entirely demonetized because too many of their viewers had Ad blockers enabled. So even though 75% of people were seeing ads on the video, Google was keeping that ad revenue, withholding it all from the creator because 25% weren’t getting ads. The claim the youtuber made is that this will probably predominantly impact creators with a more tech savvy / privacy aware audience, resulting in less of that niche content.

    Anyway, this is anecdotal, but I wouldn’t put it past Google to pass the issue to the creators for the actions of their consumers, even though it’s not their fault.

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      Creators who care about privacy should not support Google’s monopoly by using YouTube as their platform of choice.

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        legit, there are so many platforms out there, idc which one they use, but pretty please, just mirror your content. Why’s it so hard 😵‍💫. The group im referring to doesnt even have the “money ads” argument as what most small creators earn on yt is peanuts.