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YouTube runs experiment addressing users with ad blocker
madires:
YouTube's 'Ad blockers not allowed' pop-up scares the bejesus out of netizens: https://www.theregister.com/2023/05/10/youtube_ad_blockers/
coppercone2:
usually means the business is gonna go belly up if it entered the shake down the users phase. Probably not youtube but the advertiser they partner with. Its like a drowning man with lead in his pockets grasping people to stay afloat.. try reducing mass ;D . Because if youtube is not cool, people will stop posting videos, and it will just turn into some avant garde corporate gallary, and no one is gonna go there or talk about it. If people are talking about it being good it means you have alot of power.
if you did not notice, there has been a MASSIVE attempt by corporations to shake people down (employees, customers) for profits in the last few months. But now the radio is saying we are not in a recession but closed to a recession rather then the recession we were certainly in, so go figure. I think the finance industry had a panic attack.
I read the way face book treat its employees with the recent policies is kind of like a old rich person getting stingy on a date. DO YOU WANT ME TO PAY FOR THE UBER OR THE FOOD??? you know what those subjects are gonna decide to do... (because everyone figured out its dating and its NOT family) :-DD
when you act like the king, and you got people used to the court (dinner court and castle services), and then you start pushing them... history shows only a few things tend to happen from that point
I kind of imagine it like a liner on a cylinder (say corporate culture) that slipped off the cylinder and got stuck on the piston and there is just this metal cylinder slamming in and out of the engine block that is some how maintaining compression while getting severe internal stress before it cracks. Then its like the culture is doing more damage the more present it is (if its totally ignored it turns into a 4th dimensional object that does not interact with the system, but it maintains compression). Usually in this state, where its being jack hammered by a useless but corporeal object, the engine experiences severe vibration and starts to lose perfectly good parts on he road, which are picked up by other drivers, and must be replaced. Some times they just slip off but sometimes they take a chunk of casting with them
NiHaoMike:
Now might be the time for stealth adblocking.
Ranayna:
Youtube will be a *very* high priority for the developers of adblockers, i'm sure.
So i don't think that this will work in the long run. Well of course for chromium based browsers they will mess even more with the adblockers. But there still is Firefox ;)
Interestingly, i had YT inserting still ads, staying visible for maybe 10 seconds, when i ran AdGuard on my iPad.
That would actually be something i can live with.
I would even consider getting Premium, if the cheaper "no frills" subscription would be available in germany. I do not need YT Music, i don't want to see their series and movies, i don't even want 4K. I just want no ads.
David Hess:
I have not seen that yet, but for most of my Youtube watching, I download the video to local storage and then play it from there. I will stream it after latency, bandwidth, and packet loss are fixed, which will never happen.
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