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Provide fair conditions and people won’t pirate.
Skip forward too far? More ads.
Pause too long and then resume? Even more ads.
Watch 30 seconds of ads, then a few minutes of video? Oh wow, more ads!
Accidentally leave the YouTube app then reload it? You guessed it, more ads!
Turn off your TV while a video is playing then you turn it back on the next day? New ads are instantly loaded up and are playing before the screen turns on all the way.
Block channels, creators, or content you dislike in an effort to tailor a video feed to your preferences? Too bad. You’ll still receive content the system knows you dislike because those creators manage to push ads onto their viewers more often.
Pay for a YouTube subscription to block ads? That service gets cancelled, and your only option is to sign up for a new service that costs more and includes features you don’t want and won’t use.
On top of all that, your viewing habits, likes, dislikes, and a mountain of other private information are collected and sold to random entities.
Use Adblock? You're a no-good, dirty, rotten pirate! How dare you steal the food from poor little Google’s mouth?
I find it interesting that I have yet to meet a single person advocating for ad blockers on YouTube who, upon being given the option to have an ad-free experience by paying for YouTube premium, choose to do so. Yet they often then immediately fall back on the tired arguments that "well if the ads weren't so intrusive I wouldn't use an ad blocker."
That’s not interesting because it’s a false dichotomy.
If someone watches youtube and premium costs 5% of their monthly income, it will not be a shocker when they choose to block instead.
Similarly, people who view it as a shakedown for payment with the alternative being visual and audio harassment are not going to bend the knee easily.
I lost all respect for youtube when I saw that my dad is subject to a minimum of 60 seconds of political attack ads every 5-10 minutes that can’t be skipped. Literal political propaganda 10 times an hour. Fuck them.
Now I use smarttube which is not only ad-free but also has tons of nice features which YouTube will never deliver. However, should premium lite comeback I would pay for it but keep using smarttube.
Alphabet could stop being a bunch of criminal enterprises, begin respecting data protection rights for example, and then they'd have a case in claiming that paying them for something might be reasonable.
That’s because service is a complete crap, pal. These days I’m staying solely for content released in 2015 and earlier.
Why would I in the right mind support this ADHD driven, rage bait filled dump that exists solely to squeeze money out of every occasion? Modern shite is disproportionally skewed towards digital garbage because it generates more engagement and i’m the one supposed to subsidize that?
Half the reason I pay for it is just because it is easier than trying to mess with ad blocking. (The other half is that it's nice to have download on every device in the native app).
If by advertisement you mean the whole sale consumption and tracking of all your personal behaviors to aggregators that have arbitraged advertising for their profit and pushed everything in a race to the bottom...
Then yes.
Most people don't object to ads, and less to smart ones... we hate pop ups, the tracking, the scams, the bullshit. Advertising on line has done everything in its power to devalue its product as much as possible and operate an ineffective volume business. Its been doing this since the Netflix pop under and the sign up for 10 services to get a free iPod days.
> ad-free experience by paying for YouTube premium
How many paid for services now have ad's to? Sorry but no one is buying into this bullshit any more.
Nothing gets lost here. There is even more of it afterward.
So please...spare us that sad tactic.
It’s non-rivalrous and a massive portion of the world does not see it as bad at all to copy ideas (see China), let alone anything on par with property theft.