How can I be A freeloader if I actively contribute to YouTube’s downfall? I am a menace.
Comment on Goodbye Youtube and thanks for all the fish
cjthomp@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Serving 4k video is not free.
If you refuse to pay for Premium and refuse to be served ads, what do you expect to happen? You’re a freeloader.
Chadus_Maximus@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Olgratin_Magmatoe@startrek.website 8 months ago
The issue generally isn’t ads, it’s the frequency, targeted nature/data mining, and how invasive they are.
The more shitty it is to use your site, the more people use ad block. This is a problem youtube is complicit in.
Goldmage263@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
I’d rather be a freeloader than a grifter and data scraper. Besides, I don’t care fkr 4k videos. 480p is fine for my needs.
griD@feddit.de 8 months ago
You’re a freeloader.
Nah, they still have my data to sell.
AntEater@discuss.tchncs.de 8 months ago
Serving 4k video is not free
I couldn’t care less. I will block every advertisement in every form that is within my ability to block. If that causes the failure of Youtube, Google and the fall of western civilization in the process, so be it.
ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
If you provide them content then you aren’t a freeloader
YouTube is a hobby site, not a profit site. The problem is that they host the content, it should be peer based
Draugr@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Do you have any idea the amount of money they get from data harvesting your usage?
They are trippling dipping and acting like a niche browser extension is enough to have an effect on the most powerful company in history.
Doorbook@lemmy.world 8 months ago
This, if anyone should be it is the person who upload the video, not the one watching. In addition the percentage of people using these ad blocker is mostly likely is so small but they are gready.
While in general it is a free market, If they want to force ad, no one is forcing people to keep using their services, people have the right to complain about the change and push for it to revert.