Comment on YouTube is Losing The War Against Adblockers

• Gsus4@mander.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Is that what they are trying to do? Push crap ads and try to kill adblock to get them to pay for another subscription?

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  • timewarp@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I don’t care if you block ads… but to act like Google owes you and that you deserve free content is called entitled.

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    • Gsus4@mander.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Google owes me nothing indeed, that’s why I don’t pay.

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• BedSharkPal@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’m just glad someone is thinking of the shareholders

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  • timewarp@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I forgot… where can I get my free data center with petabytes of storage & 300TB/s fiber interconnects?

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    • towerful@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I get what you are saying, but the balance is off.
      YT premium is more than a streaming service per month.
      There are no industry leading movies or series released exclusively on YouTube.
      YouTubes benefits of premium is “not being delivered ‘skip after 5 seconds’ live streams” that play indefinitely (or at least for hours).
      Also, streaming services provide much better series discovery. Ie, find a show you like and easily discover the start of that series, then binge watch the entire series in order.
      YT premium is basically a “play next” queue, 1080p, and no ads.
      It doesn’t (AFAIK) support creators any more. It’s literally just a fee to not-be-inconvenienced, and it’s not great at that

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      • auzy@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Yep… i actually looked at Subscribing. But… It’s basically mostly amateur hour and the subscription costs a huge amount.

        Even worse, I don’t believe creators even get revenue until they exceed sufficient subscribers. So most people are actually paying youtube to put benefit from other people’s video’s which they have no involvement in.

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    • BedSharkPal@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Wait, are we acting like YouTube isn’t profitable now? If I’m going to spend money on videos it’ll be a content creator owner platform like Nebula

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• bulwark@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It’s only a matter of time until the premium users get ads. Just like Netflix, and cable TV before that. You will inevitably wind up paying to be advertised to.

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  • timewarp@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Netflix has ads now? I thought that was only for their lower tier service? I had to cancel Netflix cause they haven’t came out with two more seasons of Stranger Things yet.

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• Damage@feddit.it ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Google makes enough money evading taxes already. Not gonna help them make more.

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  • timewarp@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I don’t care if you use ad blockers. I get annoyed when people publish articles like… “Google is losing the adblockers war” cause then advertisers are going to start pushing harder for Google to actually prevent adblockers entirely, which they could have done already. Thus far Google, despite issues, does quite a lot of good things… Android is the only open source OS out of Apple & Windows. Android lets you install third party app stores. Chrome (Chromium) is open source… etc.

    These users writing this content don’t even develop the apps to block YouTube ads. If you’ve ever explored the APIs by YouTube, then you’d know that Google despite pushing ads for users without blockers, is still rather friendly to third party apps.

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    • calcopiritus@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Advertisers couldn’t care less about adblockers. Advertisers don’t pay if the ad is blocked.

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• narc0tic_bird@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’d pay for YouTube Premium Lite if it didn’t state “Note: Ads will still show on music content and outside of videos.” and if that’d make them stop harvesting all my data.

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• casmael@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Fuck that though

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