• elouboub@kbin.social
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      1 year ago

      They might fuck themselves when they start forcing people to turn off adblockers after 3 videos. It’s being tested in different places (probably A/B testing) and when it becomes standard, I wonder what people will start doing.

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        I’m not turning off my ad blocker to use YouTube. When that happens, I just won’t use YouTube anymore. I’ve stopped using lots of sites/services over the years for one reason or another. It’ll just get thrown on the pile.

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          For what it’s worth, you have this stranger’s full support. It’s extremely important to exercise your voice when dealing with bullshit like what YouTube is doing, and it saddens me to see so many people complain about YT / Netflix / whoever else walking all over them, while folding like wet paper and handing over their money.

          I understand that people with families can’t just tell their kids why they can’t enjoy the same shows their friends do… But even some of my single friends who pirate some things will still happily bend over for, say, Disney+.

          Anyway, just wanted to say thanks for sticking to your guns and actually treating YT like the pile of garbage it’s becoming. I’ll be right there with you if the ads become unavoidable, even if abandoning it is an extremely difficult long-term exercise. I left reddit in the rearview and YT will be no different.

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          I don’t know if their block will work in private mode of the browser. If it doesn’t, then all youtube videos will simply be opened in private mode and that’s that. If somehow that doesn’t work, then I too will stop with youtube.

          Unfortunately, we’ll probably be the minority and others will just give in to the pressure.