[colordrops]

> Both, together have managed to give google enough confidence to double their ads and disable the "skip ad" buttons on youtube.

I'm finding that I'm not using youtube that much anymore. It wasn't really a conscious decision - the annoyance pushed away my reptilian brain.

[read_if_gay_]

I barely use it on my phone anymore and on my desktop I installed an adblocker again (before I only used uMatrix).

But we’re a minority, obviously Google’s choice is paying off.

[akiselev]

> But we’re a minority, obviously Google’s choice is paying off.

Or a growing towards a majority and Google is in a deathspiral trying to meet quarterly growth targets by extracting more attention from an audience that is catching on faster than it is growing in size.

One can hope.

[jimktrains2]

I have ublock for Firefox on android and it works as expected.