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Comment on YouTube warns it might make your viewing experience worse if you don't turn off your ad-blocker

Usernameblankface@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

This is an interesting perspective. Many people are willing to put in time and effort to get around restrictions on adblockers, but not willing to give up time to ads or give up money to avoid ads.

I think if and when adblockers are no longer an option, many who fall in this category would be pushed into the paying category, while others would be pushed into grumpily watching ads.

The minority would go elsewhere to find other entertainment at an acceptable price.

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BraveSirZaphod@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

I think if and when adblockers are no longer an option, many who fall in this category would be pushed into the paying category, while others would be pushed into grumpily watching ads.

Given the success of Netflix's ban on password sharing, I think you're right here. Most people really don't care about this nearly as much as the average tech enthusiast.

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admiralteal@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
I mean, I'm a happy, paying subscriber to Nebula. Any content where I have a choice to watch it there, I do.

But I am also not pretending that Google owes me free & ad-free YouTube on my terms. They don't. Nor do the creators owe me uploading their videos to my platform of choice. I'd prefer both these things to be true, but I at least can understand that it is not reasonable. YouTube, frankly, is probably the ONLY killer product I couldn't do without made by Google, other than some open source software.

People should pirate all they want. I don't really give a fuck. I don't consider it some great moral evil. But pirating from YouTube is not some symbolic, ethical stand for your values. If you really think what they're doing is bad, stop using the service and pressure the YouTubers to upload elsewhere (which they pretty much ALL could do without consequences from Google).

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