Comment on YouTube’s ad blocker crackdown now includes third-party apps

• shortwavesurfer@monero.town ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  True, but if enough people leave, then creators will start leaving as well, and that is something they do not want.

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  • warm@kbin.earth ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Sounds great in theory, but won't happen. The internet is too consolidated now for the majority of people to give a shit, there's people buying YouTube Premium because of all this. Look at reddit, barely a dent in it after all the fiascos, twitter is holding on too. People don't care.

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  • misk@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Where will creators go to get those viewers back? TikTok?

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    • shortwavesurfer@monero.town ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      They will go where the viewers go.

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      • misk@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Where will you go?

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• eluvinar@szmer.info ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  At the scale youtube does things it doesn’t really cost them much. They actually have the servers, the bandwidth, often the power. It’s not like they get to sell a server if enough people leave. And they still get many other benefits of having you as a user (getting to profile you, getting to push propaganda, getting to sell your information, maybe you send videos to friends who don’t use adblock, maybe you buy merch from creators making creators happier on their platform).

  On the other hand this enshittification is ruining their monopoly, other areas of business (if you don’t need youtube, maybe you don’t need a chromecast? If you don’t need a chromecast, would you buy pixel phone, that can only do chromecast if samsung can do hdmi?) and curing people who are addicted to the platform.

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  • rebelsimile@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    they’re going to spend $20 million in salaries playing Tom and Jerry games to try and get $7 from me that’s never coming…

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  • misk@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    At their scale and cost optimization it’s likely one of the few remaining holes to plug. I wouldn’t underestimate how many people try to block YouTube ads which adds up quickly. Whatever the benefit is from allowing people to keep draining their resources, it probably doesn’t outweigh benefits in the 0% interest rate environment. Their monopoly is also nowhere near threatened and their biggest competitor could be banned in the US.

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