A Redditor has discovered a popup on YouTube, warning them of a three-strikes policy for blocking ads. YouTube has since confirmed the test.

Another nail in the coffin for the “modern” internet

  • Disa@burggit.moeEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I’ll be interested to see the ways ad blockers and similar tech try to get around this. I’ll also have to think harder about archiving videos I like, instead of just assuming I have access to them, I do this with most things, but videos are not one of them.

  • barge@burggit.moeEnglish
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    1 year ago

    A fine place for a first comment: they gotta pay for the videos somehow and hardly anyone will pay for premium.

    The fact that no one who knows about ad-blockers will realistically turn it off for youtube kinda drives them into a corner right?

    • shani66@burggit.moeEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Not at all, Google is still a borderline monopoly in the ad industry, they make the rules. They could easily force a sustainable environment onto the industry instead.

    • livixPmfOQRj@burggit.moeEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Alphabet’s profit increased 36 percent, to $20.64 billion, in the fourth quarter.

      I think they’re doing alright for themselves. There’s no way this profit all comes from YouTube.

      If YouTube premium came with privacy guarantees I would definitely pay for it. Sadly with YouTube premium you’re being taken advantage for both your data and your money. If they picked one over the other I would definitely pick the paid one over them selling my personal data.

      • barge@burggit.moeEnglish
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        1 year ago

        There’s no way this profit all comes from YouTube

        Personally, I doubt YouTube bring in any net profit. In fact, I think wendover just did a video about how expensive/hard it was getting Nebula up an running that that is at a fraction of the scale of YouTube.

        Look, its hard defending Alphabet here, but things will enshittify if they don’t have a clear and sustainable funding stream.

        Even these Fediverse instances leave me with the question of how will they be paid for. Donations won’t scale and any sort of monetization is…resisted.