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YouTube puts third-party clients on notice: Show ads or get blocked (arstechnica.com)

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[–] [email protected] -5 points 6 months ago (3 children)

So how would you like to pay for YouTube?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago

Out of the billions of dollars that Alphabet extracts from harvesting your data and selling it to advertisers?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Stfu, I'm subbed. But as soon as I get an ad or a price hike, I'm out. And I'm not gonna blame anyone that can't or won't pay. Especially when there's ads every 2 minutes. That shit is abusive. Defending it is fucking disgusting. Can't think of anything in this world that's a bigger waste of time...like.. literally you could do anything else and it'd be more worthwhile.

Btw. How are you paying for Lemmy?

[–] [email protected] -3 points 6 months ago

I’m not!

I also wouldn’t be bitching if they charged or wanted ads.

At that point I would probably just pay them.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Same way I used to pay for YouTube and currently pay for Podcasts: A small number of ads, at a designated spot, that I can skip through if I don't want to watch.

It would be trivial for youtube to stop adblockers by making the ads indistinguishable from the rest of the stream: Coming from the same source and behaving like the rest of the video (your controls don't get locked). But that doesn't grow their every increasing hoard of wealth fast enough. The product must be made worse for profits to grow more, and according to you I should be thanking them for decreasing the quality of their product for me. $30 billion is not enough! The company demands infinite growth in a closed system! (Or as biologists call it: cancer)