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YouTube tests blocking videos unless you disable ad blockers (www.bleepingcomputer.com)

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 years ago (1 children)

We'll find a way around it, if not go to hell YT. Apart from posters in the real world, I am living a 100% ad-free life and I'm super happy about it.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Okay but I don't understand. Isn't paying to remove ads a fair deal? I don't know, I pay for YouTube Premium and I'm kinda happy about it. The price seems fair; you get no ads, you get to download stuff, enables picture-in-picture and background playback. YouTube has been my main source of entertainment for the last couple of years so it's the only subscription I have alongside Spotify.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

The problem isn't so much that there are ads. The problem is also what kind of ads they're playing. YouTube has been known to play inappropriate ads without vetting them - think of those awful mobile game ads with a heavy sexual tone.

This stuff also seems to explicitly target videos that kids might watch.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

Yeah until they start showing ads for Premium as well. You know it's going to happen eventually

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

Absolutely, you are free to make every kind of contract if you like. Personally, I am not very invested in youTube, I don't watch any streamers or youTubers, it's just a video hosting platform for me. I am boycotting Google wherever I can, it is a privacy desaster and dystopia-like enterprise. NewPipe has all the 'features' as well, if it breaks I just let YouTube go..

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

I could live without youtube for sure, I have more of a Reddit problem than a YouTube problem... but it seems they fixed that for me.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Isn’t paying to remove ads a fair deal?

If the price were reasonable, community practices especially regarding monetization and moderation were acceptable, telemetry-tracking javascript minimal, etc. then sure.

But... we're not there.