Since May, YouTube has ramped up its block of ad blockers and the company has now fully launched this policy worldwide...
  • sugartits@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2414·
    1 year ago

    be me.

    reading lemmy

    see yet again that YouTube is blocking ads

    see the entitlement in the comments that seem to think YouTube should be both free of ads and free to use and that Google should subsidize it for some reason

    post my copy-paste comment reiterating that YouTube is a business and not a charity

    see comments from idiots that attack the commenter instead of actually trying to argue against the point or come up with any sane solution or any attempt to advance the conversation

    realise people just want the labour of others for free

    sadface.jpg

    See you again next week, fren.

    • racemaniac@startrek.websiteEnglish
      254·
      1 year ago

      I’m willing to engage this discussion with you :).

      I don’t believe i’m entitled to any labor for free, but i do oppose the mechanic of huge corporations starting with good & free services, and when they then become a monopoly, suddenly i’m “entitled and want labor for free and an idiot” when i don’t agree with all the enshittification, money grabbing, privacy violations, and everything else they think they can get away with.

      If you start a service with a certain premise (it being free, little ads, …), and then once you’re a monopoly and want some extra money start changing all that, while making sure any competition has as little chance as possible to challenge you… yeah, good luck with that XD.

      And i’ll make a predition, give it 5 years at most before game passes go through this phase. Currently all the gamers are “wow, these are such good value”, once it gives the publishers enough of an excuse to stop allowing you to buy them, watch the same fragmentation & raised prices, enshittification, possibly even advertising getting added to it once you’re stuck using such a system.

      I don’t believe i’m “entitled”, but i won’t support such tactics & monopoly abuse. They came to power by pretending to be a free site to share videos on, and they’ll die that way as far as i’m concerned. Good riddance.

      • Byter@lemmy.oneEnglish
        21·
        1 year ago

        Thank you for calling this aspect out. I’m surprised so many people are overlooking it. I protest YouTube for the same reasons, but I’ve got one more to add.

        When they merged Google Music into YouTube, the service became worse. I’d often have music streaming throughout the day over my speakers, but that broke after the merge.

        Anytime I watched a video on my phone that had Content ID-recognized music in it (even in the background), they would cut the stream to my speakers because I am only allowed one stream with any music in it at all.

        This isn’t the behavior when you use the ad supported service. Only the paid.

        Not to mention all the proper features of Google Music that didn’t carry forward.

    • nicetomeetyouIMVEGAN@lemmings.worldEnglish
      31·
      1 year ago

      It’s mostly that the multi billion dollar profit organisation didn’t need to do this. Where does that money go? Even though it’s over the back of the labour and time of both the content creators and people watching.

      Google is doing 60 billion dollar profit fine. Thanks. And not paying proper tax either, lol. It’s pure extraction of labour value.

      Get mad at that.