You Are the Product (2017)

It's tiring having a finger waved at you for blocking advertisements. When we all know that our data of who we are and our actions is just as valuable as the ads we are forced to watch.

The Internet has become an ad machine that throws a tantrum if anyone dares to block advertising or tracking (of yourself).

YouTube was meant for sharing videos but now "influencers", many channel owners, and YouTube itself balk at any attempt to block ads. The actual content of videos is now secondary to the ads which were heavily ramped-up recently with mid-roll ads. YouTube should create 100% advertisement videos and see how popular that is.

Re: You Are the Product (2017)

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Post by reader_mode » Sun, Nov 22, 2020, 5:50 PM UTC

dghughes wrote: post #5

It's tiring having a finger waved at you for blocking advertisements. When we all know that our data of who we are and our actions is just as valuable as the ads we are forced to watch. The Internet has become an ad machine that throws a tantrum if anyone dares to block advertising or tracking (of yourself). YouTube was meant for sharing videos but now "influencers", many channel owners, and YouTube itself balk at an…

You can pay for YouTube premium and get rid of ads. If you spend a non trivial amount of time on YouTube it's well worth it, especially the family account.

Don't want to be the product ? Pay for your services then - the money has to come from somewhere.

Re: You Are the Product (2017)

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Post by renewiltord » Sun, Nov 22, 2020, 5:55 PM UTC

dghughes wrote: post #5

It's tiring having a finger waved at you for blocking advertisements. When we all know that our data of who we are and our actions is just as valuable as the ads we are forced to watch. The Internet has become an ad machine that throws a tantrum if anyone dares to block advertising or tracking (of yourself). YouTube was meant for sharing videos but now "influencers", many channel owners, and YouTube itself balk at an…

I can't read this as anything but a persecution complex. Relax, install unlock origin, pay for premium services. No one is going out and making adblock users feel bad.

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Post by kmnc » Sun, Nov 22, 2020, 5:56 PM UTC

dghughes wrote: post #5

It's tiring having a finger waved at you for blocking advertisements. When we all know that our data of who we are and our actions is just as valuable as the ads we are forced to watch. The Internet has become an ad machine that throws a tantrum if anyone dares to block advertising or tracking (of yourself). YouTube was meant for sharing videos but now "influencers", many channel owners, and YouTube itself balk at an…

The most disturbing thing is how many people have become ad apologists now. We gave up the fight, we lost. Massively successful channels now bait people into watching in video ads and people actually defend this practice. Many people I know actually find these things smart and clever. Most people actually defend ads now.

Re: You Are the Product (2017)

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Post by throwaway_pdp09 » Sun, Nov 22, 2020, 5:57 PM UTC

reader_mode wrote: post #6

dghughes wrote: post #5

It's tiring having a finger waved at you for blocking advertisements. When we all know that our data of who we are and our actions is just as valuable as the ads we are forced to watch. The Internet has become an ad machine that throws a tantrum if anyone dares to block advertising or tracking (of yourself). YouTube was meant for sharing videos but now "influencers", many channel owners, and YouTube itself balk at an…

You can pay for YouTube premium and get rid of ads. If you spend a non trivial amount of time on YouTube it's well worth it, especially the family account. Don't want to be the product ? Pay for your services then - the money has to come from somewhere.

Word. People won't pay so ads happen.

Re: You Are the Product (2017)

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Post by kmnc » Sun, Nov 22, 2020, 5:59 PM UTC

reader_mode wrote: post #6

dghughes wrote: post #5

It's tiring having a finger waved at you for blocking advertisements. When we all know that our data of who we are and our actions is just as valuable as the ads we are forced to watch. The Internet has become an ad machine that throws a tantrum if anyone dares to block advertising or tracking (of yourself). YouTube was meant for sharing videos but now "influencers", many channel owners, and YouTube itself balk at an…

You can pay for YouTube premium and get rid of ads. If you spend a non trivial amount of time on YouTube it's well worth it, especially the family account. Don't want to be the product ? Pay for your services then - the money has to come from somewhere.

So the content producers just advertise to you directly, why wouldn’t they? The bigger they get, the more premium viewers, the more sponsors they receive. Eventually YouTube won’t like being cut out gain and boom to YouTube premium now has ads.