Sadly unlikely. People don't come to youtube because they like youtube. People come to youtube because the content they want is on youtube, and the content creators surely don't mind the ads, so that content will remain on youtube.
A number -- not all -- of the content creators are creating content to be paid by YouTube, so the ads or some kind of consumer payment or something is kind of intrinsic to the system for those.
What pisses me off is when I have some appliance or vehicle malfunction and it bombards me with ads when there's an emergency and trying to find information quickly on mobile. It's especially annoying when that information doesn't exist anywhere else on the internet.
I'd be interested to know whether they data-mine premium account activity. If yes, then they have a link to payment information and thus personal identity to link whatever they're data-mining to. I would object to that. If no, if you can buy privacy, that might be interesting.
“We want to inform viewers that ad blockers violate YouTube’s Terms of Service, and make it easier for them to allow ads on YouTube or try YouTube Premium for an ad free experience,” the company said in its email to The Verge.
Wow, thanks, YouTube! I always had such a hard time disabling my ad blocker - I’m so glad you’ve made it easier for me!
Really, though, I don’t see this ending well for YouTube. I’d bet there’ll be an ad blocking option that works to bypass this within a week.
Within a week? I think my ad blocker already handles it; I haven’t noticed ads on YouTube ever, on my own devices, and haven’t seen their latest messaging either.
It's the sheer patrimony of statements like these that really annoy me. I get that things have costs and they also have to deliver a profit; that's just business. But why can't they just have the guts to openly say that rather than dress it up in all the bullshit
If I didn't get two back to back 30min videos from a politician running for election in the middle of a kids video I might have hesitated on the ad blocker, slightly. If you know who Clive Palmer is, it gives it more context.
Corporations in general. Reddit with their API prices, Adobe with their montly subscription for rotating pages in the Adobe Reader, Netflix with their lockdown on account sharing... Capitalism yay!
Not paying youtube a cent until they remove all the transphobes and quit blasting people with their shit ass bigoted content. I’ll pirate and ad block just to spite them every step of the way. Make your bed with fascists, lay in it.
Remember the time when we used to search for and share funny ads? They could've done that, but no, they chose to make shitty ads that nobody wants to see.
yeah, i agree, even with alternatives like peertube but since hosting of video data is more expensive it might take longer for reliable instances to appear, but … the unfriendlier the youtube enviroment becomes, the more likely it will be that people will look for and create alternatives. Guess that at least means there is some hope for the future, even if that might be farther away.
I pay for premium because I despise ads. I do whatever I can to remove them from my life. They are really playing with fire. Change is in the air rn anyway.
How I want a YT competitor, but I really don’t see how anyone can compete with their storage and bandwidth.
I also pay for premium, and tbh what I get out of it is worth it. I pay for 1 streaming site at a time, I pay fast mail for email. I’m not hesitant to pay for something as long as I get value out of it
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