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Comment on YouTube’s anti-ad blocking test gets even pushier with a new timer

No. This is why if a service loses sight of its core value proposition, it dies.

If youtube is actually successful in killing adblocking on their service - which I suppose a server-side timer could actually do - then they will only succeed in killing their relevance, just like so many social media seem to be doing right now.

I pay for services like a debrid and VPN, because they provide me with the services I need. For very few dollars a month I can get 4K streaming from their servers 24/7. That is all hosting should cost. If the fediverse version of youtube, peertube, became mainstream then collectively people should have absolutely no problem maintaining those costs from the users’ side.

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Pregnenolone@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
You think too much of the average person. This sort of thing might affect you, but it won’t affect your friend’s 8 year old brother or his parents who just want a convenient way to watch pewdiepie

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- AgentOrangesicle@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Perhaps, but you can only crush so much blood from a stone and the masses are slowly becoming destitute.
  
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- Excrubulent@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Social networks don’t succeed or fail on casual viewers alone. Youtube is a video sharing site, not a content producer. If they get so toxic that the content producers start finding alternatives, then the casual viewers won’t all leave right away.
  
  If it gets so bad that big creators, like pewdiepie, have alternatives that grow in relevance and youtube loses its critical market share then it will eventually lose the casual viewers too, especially if those alternatives aren’t up to their eyeballs in ads.
  
  We saw this with digg, where they sold out their content to publishers.
  
  This may not be the straw that breaks the camel’s back. For reddit it was the API lockdown, for twitter it’s… well I could point to any number of individual decisions but let’s just call them Elon Musk. Facebook hasn’t quite hit that tipping point yet I don’t think.
  
  With youtube I can easily see this being part of a string of decisions to promote publisher content over user content. They’re already selling views which could really sink them in the end.
  
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  - SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Speaking of suicide, Tumblr found out that most of its content was porn and most people were coming for it when it banned it
    
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    Excrubulent@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    youtu.be/CtUuab1Aqg0
    
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peopleproblems@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
“Soon we will have a new web. One far younger and far more powerful.”

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focusedkiwibear@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
lol this post is nothing more than a tantrum from a leech of a service they’re too cheap to pay for and scrabbling for reasons other than said cheap-ness

you may get likes on the internet for this wholly selfish take but we all know it’s nothing more than that.

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- Excrubulent@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  It’s just devastating when you invent unwholesome motivations for my words to attack as an alternative to attacking the ideas themselves.
  
  My ego is in tatters.
  
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Vlyn@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
You do realize the average person watches YouTube on their TV or their phone, with ads? You are not the target audience for Google.

So I fully expect YouTube to kill adblocking at some point and they might lose what? 10% of users? Of which 5% either come back to watch ads or pay the subscription because all the content is on there?

I’m 100% pro adblocker, the internet is a mess without, but it’s stupid to think YouTube wouldn’t cut you off the moment you don’t provide any benefit to their service (For example despite adblocking you might give Superchat money to streamers, or join Streamer memberships).

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