YouTube tests blocking videos unless you disable ad blockers

Post by jeffbee » Fri, May 12, 2023, 2:54 PM UTC

barneygale wrote: post #927

john___matrix wrote: post #905

To be fair, YT Premium is one of the few subscriptions I think is a no-brainer and good value for money. Sometimes when I've forgotten to log in and see what it's like without, it's amazing anyone can watch videos on there. Like a lot of people I've generally been OK to watch ads in exchange for free content but it seems over the years instead of ads getting better and/or more relevant to my interests (even broadly),…

uBlock Origin is literally free

Post by AlexandrB » Fri, May 12, 2023, 2:55 PM UTC

tedivm wrote: post #925

runtime_blues wrote: post #910

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Google is big, wealthy, and tech-savvy enough to, at the very least, make ad blockers unreliable and annoying most of the time for most of the users. This is not good news, and it's probably not going to be a lesson in humility for the company.

The fact that they control Chrome should scare everyone.

Post by joshmanders » Fri, May 12, 2023, 2:55 PM UTC

tedivm wrote: post #925

runtime_blues wrote: post #910

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Google is big, wealthy, and tech-savvy enough to, at the very least, make ad blockers unreliable and annoying most of the time for most of the users. This is not good news, and it's probably not going to be a lesson in humility for the company.

The fact that they control Chrome should scare everyone.

Post by iLoveOncall » Fri, May 12, 2023, 2:56 PM UTC

raincole wrote: post #931

iLoveOncall wrote: post #922

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> To be fair, YT Premium is one of the few subscriptions I think is a no-brainer and good value for money. I cannot think of any subscription that offers literally no upside beside what a free browser extension that you install in 1 click already provides. Youtube Premium is literally the worst value for money that I can think of, because I can get effortlessly the same for 0 cost.

By this logic, buying e-books from Amazon is the worst value I can think of, because I can get them effortlessly from libgen and other "sources", and a single book can cost as much as the whole year of YouTube premium.

Post by Broken_Hippo » Fri, May 12, 2023, 2:56 PM UTC

fennecfoxy wrote: post #842

freehorse wrote: post #615

It is not just about youtube. The whole internet is bloated with ads right now, and the vast majority of them quite the opposite of discrete. I just cannot browse the internet without adblocker, it is too slow, but more importantly too distracting. I could count the times that I have found an internet ad interesting in my lifetime using half the fingers of one hand. Personalised or not, the vast majority is useless,…

I think the core issue is: * People don't like ads, because ads suck * Youtube offers premium, an ad-less experience Never have I seen self-entitled people so furious as when YT requests they buy premium in order to remove ads. What, should YT be hosted for free without ads and without a subscription? I get that ads suck and companies suck, but self-entitled people suck too; most of us here are devs and we get paid b…