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YouTube’s ad blocker crackdown now includes third-party apps (www.theverge.com)
submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 27 points 7 months ago (2 children)

No amount of ads are "fair"

I'm done wasting my life for other people.

Go ahead tho, you do you boo

[–] [email protected] 23 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I'm done wasting my life for other people.

I do enough of that at work as it is. I'll be fucked if I do it during my downtime, too.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

AMEN BROTHA

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago (4 children)

How do you propose YouTube should pay for infrastructure costs (servers, Internet etc), staff costs (engineers, designers, moderators) and the content creators?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

Have a paid service that doesn't have adverti...

Oh wait...

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Google Ads on the webpages of all the webpages on the Internet, similar to their status quo.

I don't think any of us should be concerned about Google's cash flow. It's their job.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Are you saying that the ads shouldn't be video ads but webpage ads, instead?

It's their job.

Yeah, exactly why they are enforcing anti-adblock rules...

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago

If this is how Youtube advertised, I wouldn't block the ads. I refuse to sit through ads when I'm searching through videos and I don't even know if the video is the one I want to watch. It's going to take a three minute search into a 10 minute search.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago

stop paying executives and shareholders. liquidate assets. I don't care.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I would've been fine paying if the price reflected what I was actually paying for (not being advertised to) which would be <$0.005 per viewed video (let's be generous and call it 1 or 2$/mo) but noo they have to ask for 25$/month like greedy little shits.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

That price wouldn't even begin to cover it. Infrastructure is expensive at that quality. Engineers to maintain such infrastructure are also expensive. Content creators make a ton of money too. Their profits are much lower compared to peers - https://mannhowie.com/youtube-valuation

Also, 22$/month gets you a family plan for 5 people so wtf are you talking about?

I don't give 2 shits about YouTube, I use ad block where I can too. I'm just saying that people who complain about YouTube's anti-adblock stuff are being unrealistic, you can't fault them for trying to block people from stealing from them.