Comment on YouTube adds new hurdles for ad blockers, and there's currently no way around it
NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 20 hours ago
Sounds like updating firefox and/or ublock will get past most of it.
Personally? I am not as opposed to google making life harder for people who want to run an adblocker, considering that is the site’s revenue (specifically the targeted ads based on user data). But I actually pay for youtube premium and have been having to refresh every video between clicking and watching it and that is just fucking stupid.
Although, it also means that shorts no longer autoplay. So when I actually want to watch a short that a channel I like put up, I only see THAT short rather than however many others before I click away.
I_Jedi@lemmy.today 16 hours ago
pick one
NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 16 hours ago
Sorry, are you saying you want youtube to be a private site that is subscription only?
Because, if you think this is a gotcha, you probably won’t have a good time. And the site itself would die as creators would have no market to really target.
I_Jedi@lemmy.today 12 hours ago
Fine with me. Youtube needs some decent competition.
NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 10 hours ago
I assume you are a hardcore “The God of Capitalism Will Prevail” person but… that isn’t how it works.
Youtube is an insanely expensive service to operate. That is why basically every other attempt failed miserably. Google is able to offset the cost due to their datacenter requirements as well as being able to sell those targeted ads. Even for google it is highly suspected to be a loss leader.
It is like people forgot that microsoft/azure tried to make their own twitch… and it failed horribly even though it had definitively better tech.