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YouTube is dedicated to making itself worse; destroys SponsorBlock with ad injection changes (www.youtube.com)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I'm honestly not gonna use youtube without ad and sponsor block.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (3 children)

You could just not use YouTube at all.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I'd rather fuck with them and make them waste resources.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

I would all but guarantee they’re wasting little to no resources on you.

[–] derpgon 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Why? Fuck the corpo, not the people who make the content.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Exactly… fuck the corpo, don’t use YouTube.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

If you don't use YouTube, you're also screwing over the content creators you enjoy. You can cause harm to a company in many ways. Stop using a site prevents them from making money off of you. Preventing them from actively making money off of you while you're still using the site actively takes money away from them. It is double sided sword because you're also not actively supporting that content creator. However, if they don't have another platform to post on, you can instead buy merch, donate, or simply help the algorithm boost their content by watching their content.

I don't disagree with you. YouTube should no longer be a viable business. Something else should step in and rival them. But since that doesn't look like it's going to happen, I'll be happy running adblocks, and letting them not recoup their server and operation costs from me.

[–] derpgon 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

How can you write "exactly" and then disagree?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago

Imagine if- now bear with me… seriously, Imagine if…. everyone stopped using YouTube.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

False.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

So… you’ll complain about, but use it anyway thereby supporting what they’re doing.

Gotcha.