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YouTube warns it might make your viewing experience worse if you don't turn off your ad-blocker (www.businessinsider.com)
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[–] Prometheus@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Do they have a way to cut off FreeTube? I just started using it recently.

[–] netchami@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

Not really, unless they start requiring you to log in before you can watch any content.

[–] viking@infosec.pub 2 points 1 year ago

In theory they can cut off everything, but it takes some more intrusive behavior on your phone. Essentially they can build a layer required to authenticate your phone as unmodified before allowing it to access any content, using a special api.