I often see the sentiment that YouTube and adblockers will be forever locked in a cat-and-mouse game. However, for many years now, Twitch has entirely eliminated adblocking on desktop web.

What is stopping YouTube from replicating Twitch’s advertising strategy of embedding ads directly into their videos?

        • dan@upvote.au
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          1 year ago

          How do you determine what’s essential?

          If I have a script on my site that implements page transitions (eg. when an internal link is clicked, fade out the old page and fade in the new page), is that essential or non-essential? It’s a part of the site’s design, however the site still functions without it.

          It’s a slippery slope.

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            1 year ago

            It’s not even a slippery slope, it’s a giant cliff of unattended consequences. Innovation in web technology could be haunted by bureaucracy.