YouTube now shows "An error has occurred" while ads running

Post by eva1984 » Sat, Mar 12, 2016, 3:58 AM UTC

Post by eva1984 » Sat, Mar 12, 2016, 4:08 AM UTC

peteretep wrote: post #95

JoshTriplett wrote: post #84

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They absolutely can; the question then becomes how much they can do so without driving some traffic to secondary sites. Right now, YouTube enjoys massive mindshare; pushing ads too hard could cause people to start remembering that other video sites exist (whether for video hosting, or competitors for the same user attention spans like Netflix and Amazon). (Also, I was using the phrase as a callback to the classic exp…

> the question then becomes how much they can do so > without driving some traffic to secondary sites Pretty far, while Adblock allows you to whitelist some sites. YouTube, boardingarea.com, and listentotaxman.com are the only sites I have whitelisted, and presumably have had forever.

Post by eva1984 » Sat, Mar 12, 2016, 4:16 AM UTC

kentonv wrote: post #65

Presumably if you subscribe to YouTube Red -- which removes all ads on YouTube -- then you won't get delays. So, what's the problem?

Post by eva1984 » Sat, Mar 12, 2016, 4:18 AM UTC

jamiequint wrote: post #25

TheWiseOne wrote: post #16

Do no evil, right? /s People seem to have this romanticized view of Google but this is a company that makes almost the entirety of its revenue from tracking users. Between Google, Chrome, Android, Gmail and Google Maps they have an astonishing amount of access to people's lives and most people seem none the wise to it. And yet, if another company does anything even remotely close (Microsoft with Windows 10, for examp…

How is blocking free/ad-blocked access to their ad supported content evil in any definition of the word? What entitles you to access their site if they don't want you to?

Post by redxblood » Sat, Mar 12, 2016, 4:20 AM UTC