Comment on Google admits it's making YouTube worse for ad block users
JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz 9 months agoThey 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.
ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world 9 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.
lastweakness@lemmy.world 9 months ago
They definitely seem to have checks in place for it. I have Family Premium and so far no issues at all.
ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Weird. It’s not happening to me today. Maybe it was something else.
voidMainVoid@lemmy.world 9 months ago
The article says that this isn’t happening for all users, which indicates that they’re still experimenting with it and haven’t fully rolled it out yet.
lastweakness@lemmy.world 9 months ago
I do have the issue when I’m logged out
Malfeasant@lemm.ee 9 months ago
Well, I don’t pay for premium, and I use an adblocker, and I haven’t had any problems. Not having a problem doesn’t prove anything if they’re only targeting a subset of their users…