YouTube disallowing adblockers, Reddit charging for API usage, Twitter blocking non-registered users. These events happen almost at the same time. Is this one of the effects of the tech bubble burst?

  • Fushuan [he/him]@lemm.ee
    412·
    1 year ago

    I’m against them doing that they are doing but you talk like you don’t have the choice to add YouTube as an exception to your adblocker of choice. Yeah having an adblocker is crucial but nothing is impeding you to do that and see the adds on YouTube.

    • morgan423@lemmy.world
      191·
      1 year ago

      I don’t think you understood what I was saying.

      I try to take no ads, from anyone, because it’s a digital safety issue. YouTube included.

      • Seiyus@lemmy.fmhy.ml
        1·
        1 year ago

        That’s fair but while visitor metrics are important, there is also ad engagement that makes them a desirable platform for those advertisers. Your visits add nothing to their business. Not that I agree with their stance, but I understand it.

      • thereddevil@sh.itjust.works
        56·
        1 year ago

        Then buy YouTube Premium and the ads go away.

        YouTube is not a charity and needs to pay for servers hosting the content people view. That money comes from ads/YouTube Premium

        • cyanarchy@sh.itjust.works
          2·
          1 year ago

          I’m going to quote @morgan_423@lemmy.world from elsewhere in this thread:

          I’m not going to reward them for these misbehaviors toward their user base by buying their “Premium” service. Same for any other site that does this and offers a “Premium service” to fix the problem that they, themselves, created. There are ways to have safe ads, and fair user experience even with them in play.

    • scarabic@lemmy.world
      34·
      1 year ago

      You can also pay for YT premium and have no ads. Plus… what’s unsafe about YT ads? You’ll definitely get some fucked up ads on small websites that just plug in a stack of 3rd party ad networks but everything on YT is native first party ads they sold and implemented themselves. Viewing them is about as unsafe as viewing YT videos in the first place.

      • can@sh.itjust.works
        3·
        1 year ago

        Yeah, I really enjoy the ads showing how I too can earn hundreds of dollars a day at home doing _____-

        • scarabic@lemmy.world
          11·
          1 year ago

          Those ads are shit. All ads are shit. But unsafe means it’s installing Russian malware on your computer, etc. I don’t think much of that is happening via YT.

          • can@sh.itjust.works
            3·
            1 year ago

            Unsafe to me includes the naive (and dumb) losing all their money to a scammer. But I see your point.

            • scarabic@lemmy.world
              3·
              1 year ago

              I can definitely see your definition, too. But it departs a little from the ad blocker conversation. I don’t need an ad blocker so I’m not fooled by a pyramid scam. I do need one to keep malicious code away. The kind of person who falls for this sort of scam doesn’t know how to install an ad blocker, probably.

              But then again, there’s the “I install the ad blocker on my mom’s computer to keep her from falling for scams” argument, which is definitely valid. Yeesh the last time I visited my elderly father he had all kinds of XXX push notifications popping up from calendar spam he’d fallen prey to. He was in a state of desperation, always afraid someone was going to see his phone do something embarrassing.