how much money do you think yt is losing to ubo, and how much does it cost for yt to keep updating the code? financially it may not be worth it.
Comment on youtube getting more agressive
JGrffn@lemmy.world 1 year agoIt’s a matter of who gets tired quicker at this point, YouTube, ublock maintainers, or users. We’re on the losing side, and alternative front ends sound like the “we’re cornered” solution. I imagine Google won’t take long to break them as well.
aceshigh@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Pika@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
the engineers won’t get tired, they are paid not to. Not to say that people shouldn’t try to evade it. This is super predatory but understandable cause of its income model.
deegeese@sopuli.xyz 1 year ago
The engineering managers will get tired of spending their budget on something that produces no return on investment. Google has no attention span for anything.
pineapplepizza@lemm.ee 1 year ago
The engineering managers get directed by corporate executives to implement a feature like this. If the engineering manager resists or protests they won’t be meeting there kpi target. there are plenty of other people to fill the role.
deegeese@sopuli.xyz 1 year ago
A feature like this can get approval to be worked on, but what’s harder to defend is spending money on it every quarter when there won’t be any tangible benefit to point towards.
Google will get bored and move on to the next shiny thing to juice revenues.
aceshigh@lemmy.world 1 year ago
depends on the lost revenue - cost of doing business/updating the code.
kameecoding@lemmy.world 1 year ago
how is it predatory? lol
bassomitron@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Because simply by going to the website, Google is automatically making money off of you due to how intrusively they spy on your behavior 24/7 (unless you’re in the very small minority that takes extensive effort to stay private online and on your phone). Google is showing me ads all the fucking time, and now they want to force even more ads every 5 minutes or less on YouTube videos (ads on YT now are far more intrusive and frequent than even 5 years ago). For them to say, “You either consume even more targeted ads or we’re banning you,” is some weird quasi-hostage level shit.
“But how can Google pay for YouTube if you’re blocking ads!?!?” Dude, YouTube makes hundreds of millions in PROFIT every year, they’re fine if some ads during videos are missed. Like I said, simply going to their website makes them money because they harvest data across all of their dozens of platforms and services. Don’t suck Google’s dick, they are not your friend. YouTube just has a monopoly on user created videos. If there were a viable alternative, I’d happily jump to that in a heartbeat and even pay like $5/mo for it.
kameecoding@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I am sorry, who is forcing you to watch YouTube videos?
Floatplane, Nebula/curiositystream, patreons of creators.