The video platform now requires users to disable their ad blockers with an immovable pop-up.

YouTube’s Ad Blocker Crackdown Is Getting Harder to Dodge::The video platform now requires users to disable their ad blockers with an immovable pop-up.

    • barbecue_sprinkler@lemmy.worldEnglish
      17·
      10 months ago

      YouTube had a good humble beginning before monetization fucked everything up. It was a bad idea to begin with. For now, best stick with piped and all the apps that use piped as backend. NewPipe and LibreTube. Want to support a creator? Go buy merch or something. Dont give Google a second of your time.

        • CalcProgrammer1@lemmy.mlEnglish
          2·
          10 months ago

          I read this as monetization being the bad idea, and that is basically the same thing as being capitalismed to death.

          • TexMexBazooka@lemm.eeEnglish
            3·
            10 months ago

            So the amount of up front investment required for something on an infrastructure level is massive. It’s the type of thing that really needs to be centralized, because it isn’t just storage. It’s massive amounts of bandwidth, a distributed content distribution network close to your end users(which is even harder on a global scale).

            Don’t get me wrong I don’t think the purely profit driven nature of YouTube is healthy at all. It’s an active detriment. But it’s hard to think of another practical way that isn’t hellaciously expensive.

            • Shard@lemmy.worldEnglish
              2·
              10 months ago

              I totally get that they had to find some way to financially support the massive infrastructure that was necessary to do what YouTube does.

              I was fine with an ad every now and then.

              I was fine with an ad at the start and end of a long video.

              Ads on a 30s video? Ads on an Ad? Multiple ads at the start, multiple ads in-between and at the end? Jesus h. Christ. Removing the dislike button?

              That was when I switched to ReVanced.

        • Dark Arc@social.packetloss.ggEnglish
          1·
          10 months ago

          Yes, they bought it (in 2006). However, it wasn’t what it is today, and IIRC it was “in the red” (losing money). It was in the red for years after Google bought it as well. There’s not a lot of good information on this unfortunately with regard to the current state. The last update we had was in 2015 that YouTube wasn’t making money https://www.wsj.com/articles/viewers-dont-add-up-to-profit-for-youtube-1424897967

          That’s 9 years of operating at a loss, and probably the 9 years people think of most fondly… We were getting the service at a loss to Google.