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For the past couple months once they started popping up that request to disable ad blockers, the videos will often play for a few seconds and then just stop. This is chrome. It hasn't happened in the last week, but typically I see it more when there are updates that require chrome to restart. It seems like either an unintentional bug or a dark pattern. But punishing users that are blocking ads is the hardest sell.

I've gotten viruses from ads, and I will not allow them. Google is never going to sell me on that.

Maybe instead of slapping users, they should have had some fiscal responsibilities in the good times and not setup a complete adult daycare for their employees.

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> I will not allow them

Then pay for youtube premium. why should google provide you a service for free, without ads? They aren't slapping users, they are offering ads or paid. Free ad-free was never a sustainable solution.

I find this entire discussion difficult, as with any other service not agreeing to the terms of sale just means you don't use it.

But online this seems to have become "Socially Acceptable Theft".

It's not like youtube access is a human right, there's a million other alternatives to entertainment online, if you can't agree to terms of one just use another?

If a business opens up in my neighborhood and offers free pizza with no strings attached I'll gladly eat that pizza.

If they change their mind and then start offering free pizza but only if I take a stack of advertisements I will take the pizza and throw the ads in the trash.

If they then start having people follow me home and harassing me for not looking at every ad, I will take the pizza and tell the harasser to fuck off and throw the ads in the trash in front of them. If they refuse to serve free pizza after that I'll just go pay for higher quality pizza elsewhere.

What I won't do is pay the harasser. It's even crazier when the harasser isn't even making the pizza, just delivering it

It is more of free pizza will arrive while you wait in line and watch ads. But now you want to jump ahead and snatch free pizza before your turn comes. In normal neighborhoods people look down upon such behavior. But nowadays such behavior seems sign of cool dudes.

Did you know you can get free food at some church gatherings? Then when they want to talk to you about their beliefs you can spit in their face, tell them where to shove it and throw their pamphlets in the garbage. You can also take as many free napkins and ketchup packets as you want from McDonalds to bring home. If the staff starts complaining you can flip them the shocker and stomp on a few ketchup packets like a real hacker so they have to clean up the floor after you leave.

This is the most terminally online comment I have ever read

> If they then start having people follow me home and harassing me for not looking at every ad

YouTube isn't following you, as soon as you close the browser window it goes away. Youtube doesn't do anything to harass you when you leave, but they will try to make you watch the advertisement as long as you continue sitting there and continuing eating.

I won't mind paying if it is a fair transaction - that is I'm being charged for (paying the creators + infra costs + profit). But Google is still siphoning my data and selling it to advertisers. If these companies can do business in an ethical manner, there wouldn't be this much backlash. People know that these companies will take money from their users and still sell them out to advertisers.

I've been seeing this behavior on brave and assumed it was a built-in feature of the browser to stop autoplay.

tbh, I don't find it obnoxious at all, if they're really doing that to try and annoy me, they've instead brought back the ability to disable autoplay, which I'm thankful for.

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