• YouTube is intensifying efforts to combat adblockers, including blocking video playback and warning users of potential account suspension.
  • Increased ads on YouTube have driven many users to adblockers, hurting both YouTube’s ad revenue and content creators reliant on ad-based income.
  • Despite these measures, many users are leaving YouTube or finding workarounds, leading creators to seek alternative revenue streams off-platform.
  • John Richard@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    My dude… There are 100s of legitimate things about Google to complain about, but you pick the weakest argument and then say I’m white knighting them. YouTube doesn’t owe you cause they made profit… you’ve been able to still bypass their ads for this long, and so now users are complaining that they were able to circumvent something easier in the past?

    • Billiam@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      There are 100s of legitimate things about Google to complain about

      But you’re not. You’ve made several comments on this post criticizing the people who 1. want control over their own devices and 2. are sick of ads being forced into every aspect of their lives.

      you pick the weakest argument

      And I happen to think that a company throwing such an entitled fit over money, when they are making an immoral amount of profit that is increasing YoY, is super relevant when discussing the profitability of one of their services.

      YouTube doesn’t owe you cause they made profit

      Pretty sure I didn’t say they did.

      you’ve been able to still bypass their ads for this long, and so now users are complaining that they were able to circumvent something easier in the past?

      People always complain when their convenience is removed from them. Welcome to the human condition.