Now that I think of it, when a professional YouTuber shows their browser, more often than not, there is no ad-blocking. But as professional YouTubers, there is no way they are not aware of ad-blocking.

I wonder if they actually watch the ads on purpose, even in private or if they turn their adblocker off just for the video, as not to give ideas to their viewers and potentially losing ad revenue.

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creatonez 3 days ago | parent | next [-]

A while back Linus Tech Tips said ad blockers are a form of unethical piracy. His audience accused him of spreading self-serving bullshit. Oddly, his position changed a few years later and he started promoting adblocking.

The chance that he was using one the whole damn time? 100%

	▲	joquarky 2 days ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Nearly every human being has a hintergedanken. I think this one is pretty benign.
	▲	zem 3 days ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		back in the heyday of the daily wtf there was a beautiful submission from a developer who worked for a banner ad company. got called into a VP's office one day and yelled at because some new annoying ad wasn't showing up where intended, a bunch of debugging later it turned out that the VP was running an ad blocker and had just forgotten about it.

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WD-42 3 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Yea, I've seen a few videos from Low Level Learning where the content of the article he's reading from gets covered by annoying banner ads and such. I don't know why but security websites have really obnoxious ads. In any case, you can see the anguish on his face but the show must go on.