YouTube is going to stop you from using ad blockers

YouTube is going to stop you from using ad blockers(tomsguide.com)

11 points by pieshop 3 years ago | 23 comments

That’s a great way to give market share to another platform.. perhaps a critical market share.

Result: 5 years increased profits, afterwards: google is finito.

YouTube is all they got at this point

pb7 3 years ago | |

What kind of market share though? Creators aren't going to move to a platform whose viewership refuses to pay a subscription and doesn't watch ads.

superchroma 3 years ago |

There is nothing on youtube I need, and I am prepared to walk away from it if I'm made to watch ads. At no point did I ever like the content enough to watch ads, particularly multiple jammed in at inopportune times. They will never get a cent from me, and there is nothing they can do to change that.

I like music. I mainly use it for music on my phone at the moment. Spotify is a better business case if I'm going to have to pay for something to solve that issue.

pb7 3 years ago | |

You don't have to watch ads. You can pay for premium instead, which also gives you a Spotify equivalent.

freediverx 3 years ago | | |

YouTube music is not remotely equivalent to Spotify or Apple Music.

superchroma 3 years ago | | |

I will never give google a cent willingly.

pfffr 3 years ago |

YT has been pretty terrible and only getting worse in terms of both cintent AND advertising. This push only solidifies my own distancing from the platform, and sureley countless others.

blibble 3 years ago |

good luck with that one

they can't even figure out how to block yt-dl

whateveracct 3 years ago | |

Worst case, yt-dlp will "pretend to watch the ad." Slower, sure. But I will happily decouple the downloading from the watching to avoid ads.

Postosuchus 3 years ago | | |

TIL. Thank you!

josephcsible 3 years ago | |

Can't figure out how to, or just haven't bothered to?

meowface 3 years ago | |

They probably could block yt-dl (or at least create an annoying cat-and-mouse game for them) if they really wanted to. They probably just don't care enough, or figure there are enough positive benefits to allowing it. Some people (including other content creators) will always have a legitimate need to download YouTube videos.

fortyseven 3 years ago |

They've been serving reduced bitrate video at 1080p lately, with a big upsell for "Premium" in the resolution menu. They have to realize this just means "YouTube like like ass now" to me, as opposed to some incentive.

m0llusk 3 years ago |

Does Firefox count? It totally changes the experience of page and video viewing. I don't use ad blockers but it seems like Firefox manages video play somewhat aggressively.

meowface 3 years ago | |

>I don't use ad blockers

I can't imagine living in this world, even if Firefox might have some built-in measures.

kelseyfrog 3 years ago |

I'm way more likely to move to PeerTube than YouTube Premium, sorry Tom/Rory.

AHOHA 3 years ago |

Nothing of a value is lost.

jbverschoor 3 years ago |

Does anybody know what currently the most expensive part about YouTube is?

Storage

Bandwidth

Processing/encoding

galleywest200 3 years ago | |

Linus Tech Tips had a good video about six months ago where they dived into the sheer amount of storage YouTube needs since they now allow 4k uploads, and the costs associated with this.

Is it the most? Not sure, but it is certainly a large number.

freediverx 3 years ago | |

Shareholder greed

pfffr 3 years ago | |

Surely not labor

cheapliquor 3 years ago |

Or so they think