YouTube is cracking down on consumers’ favorite loophole - Adblockers::undefined
I’m using Firefox with uBlock Origin and I have yet to see that popup
I don’t need to, I don’t see any popup, I can watch videos on YouTube just fine without changing anything in uBlock Origin’s settings or manually updating it.
These ad block users should be considered the cost of doing business and they should be careful with targeting them.
This kind of thing springs users into action to either find or use work arounds or create a alternative platform.
No one can create an alternative platform. Youtube costs far far, far too much to run. This is why everyone failed. Google subsidised it for what, 15 years? Before it got any level of profitability and even then, nof really. Google derives other value from it, like feeding data into their ad profiles, but no one else needs that.
It’s also clear that workarounds will stop soon as Google has installed Web drm directly into chrome
Peertube already exists and it’s better because a creator can host their own content without having to host everybody else’s content and therefore keep the price manageable. If a creator absolutely blows up mega huge then people watching the same video at the same time will be sharing the video with peers and load balance
if the forcr me to watch ads i will finaly leave that platform
And what will they have lost?
I mean, I get your point, but why would they care
Social media sites live or die on their contributors & users. If they make it too obnoxious even for established people to use the site, they’re going to look for alternatives.
Then the content will start to leave, and the users will follow, and then you’re like, “Sorry, I’ve never heard of Digg”.
Users who don’t directly pay for a social service where user content and interaction is the business are still valuable. They share videos around, they comment, they contribute to it being the place where everything is happening. There’s a reason all these tech platform companies spent so long in the honeymoon phase of monopolization. Without the network effect of people on their platform, they have nothing.
They still need a way to overall make profit from their users, but they aren’t losing nothing by losing people who adblock.
Well said! One only needs to look at reddit for a perfect example of what happens when a platform loses it’s primary contributers.
nowhere, starting to think this shit is toxic af
here hoping youtube goes under
Lets hope the enormous mass of human knowledge is at least transferred first.
Yup, and thats why im leaving YouTube indefinitely
