| ▲ | jsnell 5 days ago | |
The comment you replied to explained that nothing was changed on the YouTube side. This was an adblocker choosing to start block a non-ads, non-tracking, samesite API call that had probably been in place for like a decade. So it's quite amazing that even with that context you still managed to hijack that into a discussion about the merits of what Google did with this "balanced approach" bait. This isn't a balanced approach! It's not an approach at all! It is the ad blocker willfully choosing to break totally normal and benign site functionality. Google had no agency in this, and doesn't have much recourse. | ||
| ▲ | speff 5 days ago | parent | next [-] | |
The comments that really get me are the ones putting the onus onto Youtube to refactor their view approach to "just" count it from the backend. Rhymes with consumers asking gamedevs to add multiplayer to games. | ||
| ▲ | kasabali 4 days ago | parent | prev [-] | |
EasyList is the ad blocking list. EasyPrivacy is tracker blocking list. The culprit was in EasyPrivacy (tracker) list, not EasyList (ad blocking). | ||