Google admits cracking down on people using ad blockers

Post by eertami » Fri, Nov 24, 2023, 8:56 PM UTC

Jensson wrote: post #5

baz00 wrote: post #3

baz00 admits cracking down on using Google. Only way to do something about this crap.

Why would they care about losing you when they aren't making any money on you? "McDonalds cracks down on people taking ketchup without ordering anything" "Then I'll stop taking ketchup from McDonalds, that will show em!" It is only paying/ad viewers that matters, until they start to lose those they wont care.

Post by justrealist » Fri, Nov 24, 2023, 8:58 PM UTC

avazhi wrote: post #12

INTPenis wrote: post #8

The free ride is over. I feel like the only reason this is upsetting to people is because it seemed to be free for so long. If you give someone a free meal every day for 15 years, and then suddenly take it away, they'll be pretty upset. But nobody ever asked why the food was free? It costs to make and it costs to deliver. Google have datacenters all over the world and we still expect the food to be free. They literal…

Sorry bud, Google makes its money spying on my email and my searches. Those are tradeoffs I’m willing to make. I absolutely refuse to ever watch ads, though. You say we can’t go back torrents, and maybe you can’t, but I’ll go full Luddite mode before I start watching ads on anything. I haven’t had a television for 20+ years for this very reason. Torrents and a seed box are about as easy as it gets.

Post by helph67 » Fri, Nov 24, 2023, 8:59 PM UTC

avazhi wrote: post #12

INTPenis wrote: post #8

The free ride is over. I feel like the only reason this is upsetting to people is because it seemed to be free for so long. If you give someone a free meal every day for 15 years, and then suddenly take it away, they'll be pretty upset. But nobody ever asked why the food was free? It costs to make and it costs to deliver. Google have datacenters all over the world and we still expect the food to be free. They literal…

Sorry bud, Google makes its money spying on my email and my searches. Those are tradeoffs I’m willing to make. I absolutely refuse to ever watch ads, though. You say we can’t go back torrents, and maybe you can’t, but I’ll go full Luddite mode before I start watching ads on anything. I haven’t had a television for 20+ years for this very reason. Torrents and a seed box are about as easy as it gets.

Post by cocacola1 » Fri, Nov 24, 2023, 9:00 PM UTC

justrealist wrote: post #24

avazhi wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sorry bud, Google makes its money spying on my email and my searches. Those are tradeoffs I’m willing to make. I absolutely refuse to ever watch ads, though. You say we can’t go back torrents, and maybe you can’t, but I’ll go full Luddite mode before I start watching ads on anything. I haven’t had a television for 20+ years for this very reason. Torrents and a seed box are about as easy as it gets.

You could, of course, just pay YouTube $14/mo for the ad-free version instead of complaining.

Post by ilrwbwrkhv » Fri, Nov 24, 2023, 9:02 PM UTC

Workaccount2 wrote: post #25

beerandt wrote: post #16

I paid for the YouTube premium that came with the old Google Music subscription, and the problem was it regularly showed ads anyway, especially in the kids stuff. So then we still needed ad-blocking, which broke Google in a way that it tried to show even more ads (ad blocking probably disrupting the ability to track a 'premium' user/client). So we're back to relying completely on ad-blockers, and have completely cut…

I'm curious how you got ads with premium. I have not seen any.