People are installing and uninstalling ad blockers in record high numbers as a result of YouTube's anti-ad blocking efforts.
  • NotSpez@lemm.ee
    8·
    1 year ago

    I guess it won’t be long until Google finds out who is blocking their ads and finds a way to demonetize those particular views for the channels. We’ll have people in videos asking you to deactivate the adblocker so they can get paid.

    • Nepenthe@kbin.social
      71·
      1 year ago

      I mean, ok, it seems like it would be easier to open up a patreon then. YouTube pays in peanuts anyway, and those who care enough to help can still help while they avoid being bombarded by ads.

      Although if we’re being honest, it seems to my uninformed eye that there are two kinds of uploaders, and one of them still has a day job and keeps their channel going for a side hobby, and the other can live off the interest for a thousand years. I’m sure there’s a middle ground, but once you can make it your main job, surely you have enough subs to try switching to donations?

  • battleshack@sh.itjust.works
    8·
    1 year ago

    It’s all fun and games till google starts deleting gmail accounts. That is if the value of user data deflates and google’s ad-based business model fails. Which it may if some other party disrupts them. Seems likely as google lags behind in AI development. Though it may be for the best. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️

    • nanoUFO@sh.itjust.works
      6·
      1 year ago

      Good way to push people to competitors and proton and alienate them towards the company and it’s entire ecosystem.

    • Bonehead@kbin.social
      4·
      1 year ago

      I’ve had my Gmail account account since it was still in beta. If my account gets deleted, it’ll hurt because that’s the address everyone knows me by. But I’ll just move over to Proton, just like I moved from Hotmail to Yahoo to Gmail. I think I’m just going to reserve an email address now to be safe.

    • MadMadBunny@lemmy.ca
      2·
      1 year ago

      It may have been answered elsewhere already, but what a truly viable alternatives to the Google Monopoly and services?

  • MindSkipperBro12@lemmy.world
    2·
    1 year ago

    “I laugh’d at all the vain pretense
Of taxing at this distance, 
And swore before I’d pay my pence, 
I’d make a firm resistance.”