• YouTube is intensifying efforts to combat adblockers, including blocking video playback and warning users of potential account suspension.
  • Increased ads on YouTube have driven many users to adblockers, hurting both YouTube’s ad revenue and content creators reliant on ad-based income.
  • Despite these measures, many users are leaving YouTube or finding workarounds, leading creators to seek alternative revenue streams off-platform.
  • Kongar@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    2 年前

    I’ll never understand the entitlement of these companies when it comes to ads. You send the content freely to my computer along with BS ads. It’s my computer. I’ll display what I want using programs I want.

    If you want me to pay for that content with $ or by watching ads - then put up a hard paywall and stop sending the content for free. You can’t get uppity and complain about ad blockers - it doesn’t make any sense…

    The real problem is your content sucks and nobody is willing to pay for it. And that’s your problem - not mine.

    Here’s some free apples. There’s a newspaper ad stuffed in there as well. Oh you ate the apples without reading the newspaper? Foul ball! /facepalm

    Edit: never mind the fact that many ads have been served that are downright malicious code…

    • Toribor@corndog.socialEnglish
      1·
      2 年前

      I was paying for Google music until they took it away from me and told me it was Youtube Premium and then raised the price twice.

      Not exactly what I’d call a great value proposition.

  • Gsus4@mander.xyzEnglish
    1·
    2 年前

    The other day I visited youtube without any add-ons and concluded I’d rather do anything else than use youtube under those conditions.

  • gloriousspearfish@feddit.dkEnglish
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    2 年前

    Once upon a time Google used few and non-intrusive ads. The ads were soo well-placed and relevant, that they almost seemed like a service to the user, rather than being forced upon you. Some of us even added exceptions for Google ads in our ad blockers, so we would not miss out.

    I miss those days.