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YouTube intensifies fight against ad blockers showing pop-ups, and users are frustrated | Blocking ad-block users

www.techspot.com YouTube intensifies fight against ad blockers showing pop-ups, and users are frustrated

The rep added that using an ad blocker on YouTube is against the site's terms of service.

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I'll look forward to reading this yet again next week, alongside all the entitlement in the comments section that seem to think running YouTube is free and recommending trash alternatives which have less than 1% of YouTube's content and don't even work.
See you next week!
- Google is a multi trillion dollar company. They can afford to run youtube at a loss for decades, if not centuries to come.
  They don't want to because they are greedy and "need" to grow their profits yearly.
  Get the fuck out of here with your bullshit ass shilling for a corporate entity that would kill you if it was profitable enough.
  
  Why would google run YouTube if it's making negative profit? Seriously. Why would anyone do that?
  Am I greedy too because I expect my work to pay more than it costs me to live?
  
  Because of the insane amount of advertising they can do on the massive majority of people who don't use adblock?
  Because they hold THE monopoly on video upload?
  There are many reasons why a company exists with no profit incentive.
  
  Why do you think they do advertising? It's for profit lol.
  
  ... did I argue otherwise?
  
  So let the peasants who don't know how to block ads cover the costs for the rest of us freeriders?
  
  What a good faith argument! I will surely waste my time arguing with you!
  
  Because they're a monopoly and should get nationalized to ensure they align with the citizens rather than with the greedy shareholders.
  
  I don't like the idea that my YouTube premium money just goes into a big pool that's divided among all creators whether I watched them or not. I block ads and subscribe to patreons of YouTubers I watch the most, I would probably pay a few dollars for YouTube premium.
  
  Premium only goes to the creators you watch though and not everyone? Unless I misunderstood things or you have a source for it?
  
  Yeah I'd much rather prefer a system when portion of the money goes to google to cover their costs, but the majority of it would be divided between the creators whose videos I've been watching during that month.
  
  So YouTube premium then?
  
  Not to mention they were fine without ads and forcing content creators to spew the whole "like and subscribe or else the algorithm will hunt me down" bullshit. This is all because of corporate greed, it's so disgusting. They just want to get on the subscription gravy train because it lets them have their cake and eat it too, meanwhile content creators are left out in the cold even though they're the only reason people still use YT at this point.
- YouTube has a monopoly that is nearly impossible to challenge because of the network effect.
  Sure there are costs but it would be better if as many people as possible would be ready to jump ship to create an alternative
  
  Competitors would be great but there isn't another service that comes close to what youtube provides. You'd need it to be worth it for creators to jump ship or at least upload to multiple sites. There hasn't been any real competition in the space because youtube is so far ahead of everyone else.
  
  creators to jump ship
  that's why I said it's impossible - it the same kind of monopoly Steam has in that it's impossible for the creators to NOT be on that platform because of the size it has but unlike Steam Youtube has started acting anti-consumer now instead of just anti-creator as in the past
- Fuck YouTube and fuck shills/simps
- It's not even that.
  YouTube can do whatever the fuck it wants since it essentially holds a monopoly on video hosting thanks to the network effect.
- Some alternatives are just front-ends to YouTube. Thanks to those, I haven't used YouTube the site or the app in three years.
- The problem I have is paying for a service that harvest my data to make money, I wouldnt mind paying if they keept all that shit in the free version, so now instead I will focus my energy on circumventing the anti-adblocker
- Youtube doesn't run for free, but they can save more money by firing a few executives than go after the minority adblock users. It's not the creators that really matter (but they're the group of people who are visible and who we can relate to) but you would not be saying the same thing if they were totally honest and say they're raising money so the executives can keep on "executing" and that investors can keep their short term profits.

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