Comment on Goodbye Youtube and thanks for all the fish
wildginger@lemmy.myserv.one 8 months agoIf google cant afford youtube, they could sell it. But they easily can, so Im not losing sleep over the $2 a week they lose from me.
Or, alternatively, if the ads were reasonable, next to no one would feel any real obligation to block them. But they arent, so why should I be concerned about the sites funding?
Like, google isnt some poor struggling indie dev who cant make ends meet. Im not exactly overflowing with sympathy for their business decisions. Theyre the reason adblock is required for modern internet use.
Ronnie@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
Perhaps ads become more unreasonable because so many people block them that those who do watch them are forced to pick up the slack?
BeigeAgenda@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
No, it’s just following the curve, until their metrics show them that people stop watching they reduce the number of ads 10% until next cycle.
They have been using the frog boiling method, they crossed my limit like two years ago, when they went from a 5 second ad each x videos to two ads for every video.
Honytawk@lemmy.zip 8 months ago
When businesses are required to increase profits by 30% every year to not be seen as a failure, they would increase the ads no matter how many of the users watch them.
teamevil@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Nah…the cable company charges you to watch commercials , cell phone providers charge you to sell your data…on and on