Its free because they sell user data, I’m not gonna have them sell my data and pay them for doing that.
Comment on YouTube cracking on ad blockers.
Chozo@kbin.social 11 months ago
ITT: People upset that free things don't last forever.
serratur@lemmy.wtf 11 months ago
atrielienz@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Could we stop saying they sell user data? That’s not what’s happening. They collect that data because it’s useful. Their business model relies on not selling your data. The way it works is they collect and hoard your data and then use that data and their algorithms to target you with ads. Ad companies pay them to target demographics like women between the ages of 18-25 or men between the ages of 40-60 with ads based on things they watch on YouTube, emails they send or receive, other ads they’ve clocked on, and most importantly items they have searched for. In conjunction with data from the phones around you (other people you visit or live with etc).
This is about as companies paying google to target you with ads. It absolutely is not about google selling your data. That data is valuable to them because of their business model. And they literally need to hoard it. Amazon and Apple and Microsoft do the same thing.
manapropos@lemmy.basedcount.com 11 months ago
Google employees are out in full force it seems
Chozo@kbin.social 11 months ago
"He doesn't agree with my unrealistic expectations of the world, must be a corporate shill!"
SaltyLemon66@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
All these platforms like youtube, facebook, twitter don’t make any sense from a financial standpoint. Their model was fucked from the start and only now are we seeing the consequences.
Synthead@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Imagine if a newspaper could block you from reading an article because you didn’t spend enough time looking at the ads.
After the content gets delivered to my browser, it’s up to me how I want to consume that content. Anything that happens beyond that point is client-side. If I choose to pay attention to ads on purpose, that’s my choice. If I accept the webserver’s response and choose to view only parts of what I got, then that’s my choice, too.
Chozo@kbin.social 11 months ago
You pay for newspapers, though.
papertowels@lemmy.one 11 months ago
Don’t …plenty of digital newspapers block you from reading the article if you don’t pay up?
newIdentity@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
They do that though. Most even require you to accept their cookies, pay or not be able to read the article at all.
Thorny_Insight@lemm.ee 11 months ago
That’s a bad comparison. Newspapers cost money so you either buy one or you don’t read the articles. Even in the case of free ones they’re littered with ads. You don’t need to watch them but they’re still there.
I hate what youtube s doing just as much as the next guy but I’m yet to hear a convincing argument as to why it should be free. Many of the people complaining about this are gladly paying for Spotify and Netflix. Why not demand those for free too?
sugartits@lemmy.world 11 months ago
It is free.
Put up with the ads and get it for free or pay to make them go away. That’s the deal.
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 11 months ago
I don’t have to imagine. Many newspaper websites are exactly like that.