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Any idea what Google are doing? Is this because I dont use Chrome (use Firefox)? I've no adblockers. (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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So this started coming up today. On every video. I can (so far) click the "x" and remove it to watch (still see 2 ads before the video, and one after 4 minutes - ruins music on YT), but did click the "Report issue" only for the dialogue box not to work.

I found a link to a that said 11% use adblock. Thats not a lot.Maaayyyybe there is a problem with the amount of ads youtube forces down our throats for even short videos. 🤷‍♂️

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Ok the whole idea of ads is a mess. It used to be that showing ads was additional income next to doing your normal stuff. You hosted a website for a blog or sth. and if people liked your blog you could reduce server costs by a few ads. This whole thing got out of hand a century ago when you plan to host a blog(for example) with so many ads on the site so you make a profit from ads. The quality of the blog went so low since it isn't important that people like rather than click it once. So mass trash production is the result.

Back to Youtube. They provided a service for free to host videos. They did this at a loss for almost ever. They also added a few ads in order to reduce costs, but those ads didn't turn in profits. They added Youtube Premium in order to make profit. But people didn't really buy it since it was too expensive (I assume). So now probably there was a big pressure from Google to get YouTube profitable. They increased the ads and the unskippable ones. Slowly they made money, but now the greed has probably taken in. "Force people into Premium by so many ads that the site is unusable without" is probably the current goal to make more money.

Now of course people don't like to pay for a previously free service, and people don't like ads: An adblocker it is. Now youtube wants more money! So adblockers must go! This ideology is in line with chrome Manifest v3 so you can't block ads anymore (like on Android)

Youtube is totally in the right here. It's their service and they can do what they want, but I am Also allowed to decide what happens in my Browser on my computer! I can decide to disable ads all I want! There is no law forcing me to watch them. I mean what's the difference between me bocking ads at a technical level or just go out of the room until it is over? None from a advertisors view, but for Youtube they get money even if you don't look as long it is displayed.

Adblockers save advertisors money!