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Effectively? I've been using uBlock Origin the whole time. Whatever YouTube is doing, it cannot be accurately described as "effective".
I think they’re still doing split testing.
You might want to see my other comment, here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38542185
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Video sharing sites of the size/impact of Youtube, similarly to social platforms like Facebook/Instagram/Twitter whatever, and platforms like Google Search/Maps, etc have a tremendous impact on society. They have become a major way of how people communicate, make daily choices, purchasing decisions, vacation plans, etc. When a company is that big and that impactful (despite being a for-profit company), it is in inter…
How much more tax are you willing to pay to have these extra utilities be run by govts?
I think if you are above 500k yearly income, the taxation rate should be something around 80-90% on every cent above that threshold.
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How much more tax are you willing to pay to have these extra utilities be run by govts?
The government should be taxing higher the profits of the big companies and the top earners and reinvesting the money in governance of them. I think if you are above 500k yearly income, the taxation rate should be something around 80-90% on every cent above that threshold.
What is most interesting about this whole adblocking war: we're winning. If we weren't youtube/Google wouldn't be making such a fuss. So keep it up. I can also heartily recommend the 'unhook' browser extension, it takes care of all of those upsells and feeds.
What does winning mean in this context? If we take this to an extreme, doesn't content just not get made? Do you think Google is going to go to a model where things are freely accessible without ads? Feels like even when a company provides a way to get rid of ads, many people still won't pay. They _say_ they will, but I find often people will want to substitute their own terms (Well, youtube premium is $x, but I thin…
If the content is made only because of the ads, is it still content or actually an ad ?
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The government should be taxing higher the profits of the big companies and the top earners and reinvesting the money in governance of them. I think if you are above 500k yearly income, the taxation rate should be something around 80-90% on every cent above that threshold.
in other words, the proposed is a policy for which other people (whom you view as having more wealth) gets taxed for a benefit for which you will gain.
If I was earning more, I would not mind sharing an ever increasing percentage of that in terms of taxes. I don't need 20 houses and 20 cars, and my own rocket, no individual person needs that. People like that should not be allowed to exist by the government.
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Video sharing sites of the size/impact of Youtube, similarly to social platforms like Facebook/Instagram/Twitter whatever, and platforms like Google Search/Maps, etc have a tremendous impact on society. They have become a major way of how people communicate, make daily choices, purchasing decisions, vacation plans, etc. When a company is that big and that impactful (despite being a for-profit company), it is in inter…
So what, specifically, do you want to see different about Youtube?
- go to it's pre-aggressive-ablocking-removal state
- pay the content creators better
- moderate better so people like Andrew Tate, Alex Jones, etc don't get a platform
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I think they’re still doing split testing.
They're not doing anything effective. What does split testing have to do with it? You might want to see my other comment, here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38542185
Do people typically respond to the YouTube anti-blocking threat prompt by disabling their ad blocker entirely, or by enhancing their ad blocking?
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> I simply decline to load and view the ads. That's fine, but then they can also choose to retaliate how they want. It's really weird that everything you're saying seems to boil down to "I don't need to play by their rules, but they need to play by mine." I'm of the opinion that if you want to bypass their ads that's fine, but you can't get angry when they take action to prevent that. > Your mentality seems to be tha…
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You are mistaken. I may be on the Orange Site, but I am in fact not an entrepreneur or a techbro pulling $100+K/yr. I'm not rich enough to waste money on delivery services. I recently got mad that the Wendy's biggy bag went to $7 and eat out less because I'm not paying $10+ for a single meal unless it's something I can't (easily) make at home. You can't get Subway for less than $12, and it's a fucking sandwich . Most…
If you can afford it after cutting those two out, YouTube. What's your local price for weed? Is the hours of entertainment from YouTube not worth a joint or whatever?
Youtube is a place for me to listen to game OSTs. A weekend with VPN access and the right protocols could make my entire usage of the site obsolete.
Google simply doesn't do anything worthy of my money. Google and all its properties could disappear tomorrow and my personal computing would barely be affected. Same for Microsoft. There are ways to insulate yourself from being treated like a wallet to dip into at will.