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This is a long time coming. Who in their right mind thought that a service that allows pretty much anyone to upload gigabytes of videos would be free forever. I get that people don't like ads, but the amount of outrage is overkill.
Don't care, there are billions of hours lifetime saved by adblocking.
Nobody needs to defend this tech conglomerates, let them figure it out.
What if the solution they come to is shutting the whole thing down? Isn't a degraded add riddled experience better than nothing?
Do you people really think that YouTube can pay five-year-old "influencers" millions of dollars a year because YouTube is losing money?
Good fucking riddance.
So then don't use it if you want it gone?
They should close their doors to anyone they don't want to have on their site, so other companies get a chance to compete. Why would we stop using it, i'm literally fine with ad-free Youtube, you're the one having a problem with it.
That's exactly what they're doing with the ad block check.
You don't know what I do or do not have a problem with.
Yes, maybe they got too big and are destined to fail at that point. They essentially have a monopoly in that space.
It’s less about not liking ads and more that the ads are plagued with scams, spam and whatever else.
Don’t we think that they should be held accountable for the type of ads they run on there? Crypto scams, get rich quick, and mlms to name a few.
The same goes for the MSN homepage it’s fucking ridiculous.
Also, if they want to serve me ads, then stop selling my data too. If I sign up for premium they’ll still sell your data anyway.
I am not really in a place where I would want to defend billion dollar companies.
The discussions I'm seeing are not about the contents of the ads but simply because they can't bypass them anymore.
You say as you reply to a comment explicitly discussing the content of the ads.
So you raise an argument, I respond by telling you it's not the main argument I'm seeing itt, and your response is to point back at your singular comment?
Don't get me wrong, I agree with you 100%, but most people here are just mad they can't get YT for free as easily anymore.
What's do you think selling the data is for? It's largely to better target ads. It makes sense to complain that premium sells your data, but that they sell your data and show you ads is pretty much the point of selling your data.
I believe I said if I paid for premium they would still be selling my data. Premium doesn’t come with ads ergo they don’t need to personalise ads they’re not going to serve me.
Edit: I just reread my OC and concede I worded it poorly.
I can only speak for myself, but it’s less about the monetizing and more about the how.
The ads are intrusive and highly disrespectful of our time. Not to mention the bullcrap they’re allowed to advertise that would get videos demonetized. And the risk of malware from the ads.
I can understand things like premium. Heck if they wanted to lock HD behind premium I could understand. It costs a lot of money to run that crap so getting money for that service does make sense.
But by solving that with intrusive, annoying, possibly dangerous ads? I will block the ads. Find a better way because that ain’t it. I will sooner leave YouTube for other video sites satisfying my interests that are currently being advertised by creators on YouTube itself, than accept the crappy ads.
Google, apparently, when they bought YouTube. "let's host terabytes of data and stream it to users for nothing" and then do just that for over a decade before they realized "oh shit, that costs money I guess??"
Google fucked themselves. But it's not like they can't foot the bill either, based on their net profits. The fact that they are now telling people that the service they've used for nearly 20 years doesn't want to be free anymore is a valid reason for outrage.
It's like your partner of 20 years deciding that sex is now a per-month expense, when it wasn't up to that point. A bit "you fuckin wot m8" moment.
The reason is that now even the poorest can make videos in 4K@60fps, and with the tendency to upload every moment of one's life not even Google can afford to give free terabytes to everyone.
Then... don't allow high resolution uploads?
The entitlement...