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YouTube warns it might make your viewing experience worse if you don't turn off your ad-blocker (www.businessinsider.com)

submitted 2 years ago by TangledHyphae@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] DarkThoughts@kbin.social 15 points 2 years ago (3 children)

YouTube made my viewing experience worse for the past decade already, and I'm not just talking about the fucking ads, which I don't see either way and never will be, regardless of what they do. If they think this is going to make me want to support them, then they should just drink the bottle of bleach as their next fabulous idea.

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[–] archchan@lemmy.ml 15 points 2 years ago

The more Google keeps going down this path as they inevitably always would, the more viscerally I will fight against it.

[–] starman2112@sh.itjust.works 15 points 2 years ago

[–] spirinolas@lemmy.world 14 points 2 years ago

"Hey buddy, it would be a damn shame if something happened to your viewer experience. Oh, no, we're your buddies, eheheh. For a small fee, we'll make sure your experience will be safe."

[–] ElBarto@sh.itjust.works 13 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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[–] RealWarrenBuffett@lemm.ee 13 points 2 years ago

And people will fight this even harder.

[–] Siegfried@lemmy.world 12 points 2 years ago (1 children)

What holds youtube from blocking all videos to addblock users just as other sites do? Are they afraid of pushing youtube down the cliff?

I don't understand why self hosted videos aren't more popular

[–] PizzaMan@lemmy.world 16 points 2 years ago

What holds youtube from blocking all videos to addblock users just as other sites do?

It's a constant game of cat and mouse, an arms race till the end of time. You can't block videos from ad-block users if you can't tell which users are using adblock and which are not.

I don’t understand why self hosted videos aren’t more popular

It's quite complicated technologically, and requires quite a lot of storage space. Viewers only go where the creators go, and the creators have no reason to go to someplace that is more of a pain in the ass to host videos.

[–] vermyndax@lemmy.world 12 points 2 years ago (6 children)

Ironically, I cannot read the article because I use an ad blocker.

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[–] ieightpi@lemmy.world 12 points 2 years ago (1 children)

im confused. I use firefox and ublock and haven't noticed any change in the way youtube works for me.

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[–] onlinepersona@programming.dev 12 points 2 years ago

That enshittification may continue until the ad revenue improves.

(aka never)

[–] badbytes@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)

How could it get worse?

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[–] db2@sopuli.xyz 11 points 2 years ago (7 children)

Imagine being so cocky that you think pirated YouTube videos can't be a thing.

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[–] Tattorack@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Bring it.

[–] SamsonSeinfelder@feddit.de 10 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Yeah bring it on Google. I didn't thought I could leave Reddit as there is so much content and I thought I always would fall for the sheer quantity of content that Reddit has. I am suprised by myself how easily I accepted Lemmy over Reddit even all these Month later. Maybe I could leave Youtube too and would be okay with another platform that does not provide so much content. And you know how I find out? Not by doing it on my own. But by getting a really good incentive to make this step. If youtube thinks I am gonna bend over and accept hours of ads in my life they are wrong. I will choose the alternative. As soon as they force me to disable adblock, I have all the reasons to pack my coach wagon and go west searching for another life. Maybe it will not be better, but I will certainly be free. And it will be exciting to be part of something new. Bring it on Google. Make me leave you!

[–] roguetrick@kbin.social 11 points 2 years ago

Youtube drove me away when they started autoplaying misogynistic and alt right nonsense.

[–] SquishMallow@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago (4 children)

YouTube surprised at sudden lack of consumers

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[–] apochryphal_triptych@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago

I pay for Youtube premium as a carry-over from Google Music (back when it was called Youtube Red). I let it run because I enjoy the screen off feature when I'm driving. On my desktop uBlock Origin still blocks 340 scripts/trackers even when logged into Premium. They not only want to eye-rape us with ads, but they want to track the fuck out of us across the web.

[–] PeckerBrown@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago

Youtube can eat shit and post it to 'shorts' before I turn my ad-blocker off.

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