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Reportedly a lot more people became aware of ad-blockers than ever would have without Google's hissy fit.

How much follow-through and ad-blocker installation that translated to, I have no idea. But it's fun to mock Google anyway.

But... I am one person Google drove away. I finally installed an alternative YouTube application simply because Google introduced never-ending ads that must be manually canceled every few minutes. I was OK with watching normal, TV-style ads. But Google crossed the line by basically halting playback of a program every few minutes and forcing you to herd it along over and over and over. I can't do that while I'm cooking.

>>Shadow+(OP)
> Reportedly a lot more people became aware of ad-blockers than ever would have without Google's hissy fit.

Happy for this to be true