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YouTube tests blocking videos unless you disable ad blockers

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Re: YouTube tests blocking videos unless you disable ad blockers

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Post by Zetice »

paulpauper wrote: post #17

the people who have a blockers enabled are also the lest likely to click an ad or buy anything advertised . advertisers should want these people to not be shown ads.

Does YT detect that the ad wasn't played and therefore doesn't pay out for that view to the creator?

From an incentives perspective, putting the onus on the creators to convince their viewers to enable ads might be more effective, but on the other hand that feels kind of shitty to do to creators, so IDK if it's ultimately a good idea...

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Post by gentleman11 »

wnevets wrote: post #4

On a related note as someone who uses YouTube constantly YouTube Premium is absolutely worth it.

I don't like paying a platform that rose to prominence because of piracy, just so that I can watch IP created by other people without youtube inserting a really intense number of ads into the experience. And all the vidoes are ads anyway, it's just via sponsorships and affiliate links now.

It feels deeply icky

Re: YouTube tests blocking videos unless you disable ad blockers

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Post by gentleman11 »

wnevets wrote: post #38
thematt wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What makes it worth it? Isn't the experience the same as just running an ad-blocker?

I don't run an adblocker on my phone, YouTube Music is included and the creators still get paid.

The main reason they get paid is that their income is primarily from sponsorships and affiliate links now. Youtube premium doesn't block that, and it's a much more insidious kind of ad.

It makes you think you're watching somebody being authentic, when really it's a business disguising itself as an authentic person that's trying to sell you things (whether out of bias or strategy)

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Post by deltree7 »

wnevets wrote: post #4

On a related note as someone who uses YouTube constantly YouTube Premium is absolutely worth it.

HN/Reddit : For years, "I'm happy to pay for services that has no/few ads".

Companies: Here's a ad-free version. Subscribe

HN/Reddit: Why are you asking me to subscribe? I hate this

Re: YouTube tests blocking videos unless you disable ad blockers

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Post by BLKNSLVR »

scohesc wrote: post #57

I hope my sheer stubbornness will keep me from ever subscribing to Youtube premium. - Google used to have Google Music, which I loved and paid for willingly as it was a good service, the recommendation algorithm was _not bad_, the UI was _okay_, and you could upload your own music and have it integrate with their system. - Google used to by default allow you to play Youtube in the background and let you use the pictu…

Well said friend, I'm on the same page with almost all of these things!

I have a long term plan to setup a suite of the existing self-hosted front-ends to various services just for me and my immediate family to personally use.

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