Comment on Youtube's Anti-adblock is illegal in the EU

WalkableProgrammer@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• elbarto777@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  They’re not ruling that YT can’t push ads, though. They’re ruling that they’re sniffing around the user’s computer for things that aren’t preventing them provide the service.

  In the end, Google has options. One would be, and I’m not saying this is the best one, that they charge everyone to access their site. You know… they way some newspapers do. I’m sure there are other options.

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• snooggums@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  As a free user they get engagement, which may or may not offset what they get out of those that do provide them income. It seems like that was good enough for a couple decades.

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  • AnonTwo@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I...really don't think it was ever about engagement. I think most free users just didn't have an adblocker.

    I think ublock orgin's adoption just picked up.

    I mean engagement is great, they make the algorithm work (well, "work") but I'm pretty sure the ads were the selling point before premium was even an option.

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    • dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Google is an advertising company. That’s how they make money. Everything else they do – search, youtube, apps, phones – is just an ancillary sideshow that’s a vehicle to showing people ads, or gathering data on them to use in showing them ads. So you are 100% correct.

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• antonim@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  assuming the ads are not malicious

  All ads are malicious.

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• gian@lemmy.grys.it ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I like the EUs tech laws but I don’t think they should rule that a computer can’t push ads (assuming the ads are not malicious)

  EU techs law don’t ban to push ads, they say that you cannot look into my device to check it I (could) see them without asking for my permission for something that you don’t need to provide a service.

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• ilinamorato@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  they have to get something from people using there services

  True, and if the ads weren’t absolutely overwhelming (easily around 50% of all watch time, last time I watched without blockers) and if they weren’t so poorly implemented (starting ads at random times and not even caring if they’re cutting someone off mid-sentence, making 2min+ ads unskippable, accepting ads from very questionable advertisers) it might feel a bit less onerous.

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• nicetriangle@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I was fine paying the premium light subscription price and now they're killing it and forcing me off that plan and to pay 50% more to add features I 100% don't use and don't want to use. And of course they'll just jack up the price again in 6-12 months because it's never enough.

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• Broodjefissa@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  YouTube’s ads have been malicious for years. If now they try to push the ads they used to have people wouldn’t have a point. But the way YouTube and Google are maximizing all their cash grabs they need to be put down in any way possible.

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