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Comment by criley2 | Hacker News Reader

"Youtube deletes LTT video that explicitly teaches users how to block ads on Youtube" might be a more honest title, but less clickbait.

I mean, that's their business model. Watch ads or pay for premium. Do you really expect them to host videos on how to cheat their business model?

If I went on LTT forums and wrote about how to steal floatplane (LTT's subscription service) content, would they leave my post up?

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Yep, I would expect a platform to let someone to post on how to do basic ad hygiene, it's weird that you would think that's not ok.

There's literally thousands and thousands of videos on how to do this on youtube that have no such reaction.

I watched the video, but youtube wasn't covered, nor SponsorBlock, so this is not really true.

Sure, Brave does block youtube stuff but they did not advertise Brave for that purpose, but just as an alternative to Chrome

In Linus's follow up video, he admits it is true and even agrees with Youtube's takedown. He states flat out that he knows other youtubers have been banned for teaching folks how to get around youtube's business model and it was a risk that wasn't worth taking for his company.

Just like how I made the analogy with floatplane, he made a very similar connection.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=apdZ7xmytiQ

Looks like I was talking about the Part 1 while the one that was taken down is the Part 2

It's not theft for a user agent to represent the interests of the user. Youtube is free to paywall content if ads are not sufficient.

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