Comment on [Mental Outlaw] YouTube Accidentally Made Ad Blockers More Powerful

Tygr@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• oatscoop@midwest.social ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Alright, so I watched the damn video so you guys don’t have to. Here’s a synopsis:

  Youtube’s ad blocking is going to backfire because:

  • It caused people to stop using crappy ad blockers that didn’t even work with youtube to switch to effective ones that do.
  • Drawing attention to “good” browsers and ad blockers, increasing adoption – including people that weren’t using or aware of the existence of them in the first place
  • Increased support of the people making/maintaining ad blockers. Spite driven increase in donations, subscriptions to paid ad blockers, bug reports, etc.
  • Cites the Streisand effect.
  • Analogy of how prohibition led to stronger drugs, stronger booze, etc.
  • Cites how Youtube’s attempts to block ad blockers is breaking older embedded apps in smart TVs, chromecast, etc. Older or non-tech people are just more likely to stop using those rather than try to fix them – and thus cut back on watching youtube.

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  • ImFresh3x@sh.itjust.works ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It’s funny to me because I recently downloaded an app for my nvidia shield called smartTube which blocks ads and all that jazz. And I donated $8 to the dev. And posted to the git.

    I only did this because of the recent headlines about YouTube policies changing. I don’t mind paying for things. But I will pay someone else out of spite if you charge me too much, pester me, or take away things like that were free.

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    • WallEx@feddit.de ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yeah, YouTube premium is more than 10 bucks a month, not per “you think it’s worth it”, so the prices aren’t even comparable.

      YouTube premium is fucking expensive is what I’m trying to say.

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  • uranibaba@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    🥇take my lemmy gold

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• camr_on@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Sums up a lot of mental outlaw vids

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  • paraphrand@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    But he’s so edgy!

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• BearOfaTime@lemm.ee ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  You just described 99.7% of videos on the web.

  Pretty much anyone can read about 4x faster than they can speak, and that’s before all the fluff that shitty presenters add.

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• Camilo@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  There is a website I discovered recently for doing text summaries of YouTube videos.

  www summarize.tech

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  • Camilo@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It’s ironic how it injected an ad in “ad blocker” in the summary

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• demosthememes@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  ‘Content Creators’ really need you to smash that “Like” & “Subscribe” button though!

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