Comment on Google admits it's making YouTube worse for ad block users

• Chickenstalker@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Except they want to send you videos. The power is with you, the viewer. Without you, advertisers will have no reason for buying ads. Google can’t collect your data either. Realise that you have this power. Youtube is not like electricity or clean water. We can live without it if push comes to the shove.

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  • ElectroNeutrino@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    To be fair, what they want is to make money off of you, be it through metadata or through advertising. It’s just that sending you videos happens to be the model which they use to get the metadata or advertising income.

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    • gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      If they wanted to make money off of me then they should have kept the Pixel Pass as a thing so I’d have a reason to have YT premium

      Or make YT premium worth it

      But nah, they’d rather ruin the product I was paying for, so now they get nothing. At least then I’m not paying for it to get worse

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  • JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    They don’t want to send us videos, they want to serve us ads and annoy us into buying Youtube Premium, which someone using adblocker won’t see, or need. From their point of view they would win either way - if they successfully block adblockers it either converts us into ad watchers, premium subscribers, or we fuck off and stop using their bandwidth.

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    • ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It’s funny because I pay for premium and have noticed a worse experience since this was revealed. They don’t seem to check if a user has adblock and pays.

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      • lastweakness@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        They don’t seem to check if a user has adblock and pays.

        They definitely seem to have checks in place for it. I have Family Premium and so far no issues at all.

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  • BraveSirZaphod@kbin.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You have no value to advertisers if they can't serve you ads. By not doing so, they'll also cut down on bandwidth costs, so it's a double positive for them.

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    • CosmicCleric@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      By not doing so, they’ll also cut down on bandwidth costs, so it’s a double positive for them.

      When you take your comment to its logical end though your comment makes no sense, as hence there’s now no one to watch the videos and earn money from them doing so.

      You can’t force someone to consume your content, and if you earn money by people consuming your content, then the power is ultimately with them.

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      • cole@lemdro.id ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        this assumption is only correct if EVERYBODY is using as blockers. They aren’t - so it makes sense to cut off the proverbial leeches

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• Synthead@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Yep, they can send me 500s if they want to, too

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  • TheEntity@kbin.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Technically 400s would be more appropriate here. :)

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    • gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Response codes only matter to good-faith actors

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• SinningStromgald@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  If the service degrades to far due to using ad blockers then I’ll just stop watching anything on YouTube. Easy.

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  • Wrench@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Okay then. That was always allowed.

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  • BradleyUffner@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Umm, ok. You were not making them any money before, when you were blocking their ads, why would they care if you left?

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    • CrowAirbrush@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Because the big channels will get a significant drop in views which lowers their sponsor pay and willingness to work with them.

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      • BraveSirZaphod@kbin.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I think you're overestimating how many people care enough about this.

        Remember when killing password sharing was gonna be the death of Netflix, and then they saw a significant increase in subscriptions and profits?

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    • gian@lemmy.grys.it ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      A possible answer is because the creators that have their own sponsors in their videos want the view even if you don’t see the Google ads, so Google on one hand want you to watch their ads while on the other hand cannot afford to really lose you since that would reflects on the creators and then if a creator leave for another platform (a big if, I agree) Google lose all the traffic generated by said creator, both who use an adblocker and who don’t use an adblocker.

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