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YouTube is Losing The War Against Adblockers (www.howtogeek.com)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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YouTube is intensifying efforts to combat adblockers, including blocking video playback and warning users of potential account suspension.
Increased ads on YouTube have driven many users to adblockers, hurting both YouTube’s ad revenue and content creators reliant on ad-based income.
Despite these measures, many users are leaving YouTube or finding workarounds, leading creators to seek alternative revenue streams off-platform.

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[–] [email protected] 121 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Good.

Youtube is a wonderful thing. It's a wealth of knowledge and resources unlike anything this world has ever seen.

And it's ran by one of the worst, most predatory corps on the planet.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 4 months ago

Perfectly put. The product is great and I love how it democratizes “being on TV” and lets some people make a living doing their own thing.

But I do not like where YouTube’s cut of that ad/sub money goes, and the enshittification pushed into it.

Unfortunately, YouTube is not unique in that regard. It’s a sucky fact of life that just about any complex product you spend money on will benefit a collection of rich sociopaths skimming as much as possible from the incomes of the people actually making the thing. Gotta vote with your wallet where you can, and vote the traditional way for the systemic issues.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 months ago (1 children)

it's ren

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Ron*

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Danke. Mein Reichsleiter.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

*Reichsleiter

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Ty. I knew it looked wrong.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Ballsy to use a 2nd language as a sarcastic reply to someone correcting grammar.