Youtube and others want their users to disable adblockers to increase their revenue from advertisements, but will forcing the users to so do be effective in ...
And the time we have to put in that effort. Seeing those messages want me to block them even more and if they block me, then it’s a challenge to unblock it.
This implies our fine efforts to keep getting ad-free content keeps some YouTube techs employed.
I’m reminded of the egregious copyright defending efforts of Sony, Universal, etc. is not because they’re afraid of dancing babies, but because they outsourced IP policing and their subcontracting firms couldn’t care less about tact or discretion.
In contrast it is totally on brand for Disney and Nintendo to go after day-care murals.
For almost 25 years I’ve stayed at the cutting edge of high seas technology simply to not be a profit center. I’ve probably spent nearly as many hours staying ahead of the attempts to make sure I watch ads as actually having watched the ads themselves. I’ve dropped several social media platforms as soon as they started to enshittify, to the detriment of keeping in touch with friends and family.
But I regret nothing, not only have I been unprofitable, I’ve saved money by not having any subscriptions to cable TV or streaming services for a quarter century. I’ve donated as much as I’ve saved to projects that help me do that and creators that simply ask nicely for me to support their content instead of being conduits for these fucking vampires to suck people dry.
Yeah. It finally pushed me to look for alternatives like FreeTube and also I am going to pay content creators directly from now on. So thanks for the effort I guess ;)
They don’t seem to understand how much effort I’m willing to put in to be unprofitable.
And the time we have to put in that effort. Seeing those messages want me to block them even more and if they block me, then it’s a challenge to unblock it.
Plus the dev-hours spent combating ad blockers are billable. My hours aren’t.
This implies our fine efforts to keep getting ad-free content keeps some YouTube techs employed.
I’m reminded of the egregious copyright defending efforts of Sony, Universal, etc. is not because they’re afraid of dancing babies, but because they outsourced IP policing and their subcontracting firms couldn’t care less about tact or discretion.
In contrast it is totally on brand for Disney and Nintendo to go after day-care murals.
For almost 25 years I’ve stayed at the cutting edge of high seas technology simply to not be a profit center. I’ve probably spent nearly as many hours staying ahead of the attempts to make sure I watch ads as actually having watched the ads themselves. I’ve dropped several social media platforms as soon as they started to enshittify, to the detriment of keeping in touch with friends and family.
But I regret nothing, not only have I been unprofitable, I’ve saved money by not having any subscriptions to cable TV or streaming services for a quarter century. I’ve donated as much as I’ve saved to projects that help me do that and creators that simply ask nicely for me to support their content instead of being conduits for these fucking vampires to suck people dry.
The only one profiting off of me is Western digital
I swore off WD with their SMR on NAS drives bullshit.
I swore off of Seagate after their 1tb drives kept dying
Yeah. It finally pushed me to look for alternatives like FreeTube and also I am going to pay content creators directly from now on. So thanks for the effort I guess ;)