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mmmmmbop on April 30, 2025 | parent | context | favorite | on: Someone at YouTube needs glasses

This bit of information makes the entire thread hilarious to read.

Bunch of hackers using adblockers that modify the client-side UI to cheat Google out of money and then complaining loudly about a minor UI convenience. How dare Google not optimize for them!

I say this as someone who uses an adblocker myself. But come on.

insin on April 30, 2025 [–]

Hehe, you need to be a big enough nerd to know to do this when you see it's misaligned:

https://github.com/insin/control-panel-for-youtube/blob/cf18...

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