YouTube tests disabling videos for people using ad blockers

Re:YouTube tests disabling videos for people using ad blockers by pixxel on Friday June 30, 2023 @08:27AM (#36533678)

Here’s another line of thought: YT could have straddled P2P tech and hosting directly (premium 4K offerings etc.). But Google wants all the content and all the control. The world’s video library is controlled by one corporation. They could farm the cost to peer tech but they won’t. So fuck them, I’ll circumnavigate my way into the library to watch some guy in his shed work on his hobby who isn’t begging for likes and subs.

And if I did pay? Google will still be logging my data. So fuck them once again.

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Re:YouTube tests disabling videos for people using ad blockers by acdha on Friday June 30, 2023 @10:10AM (#36535237)

Sure, nobody says you have to like them any more than you have to like every restaurant in town. The solution in both cases is not to give them your business – not complain when they refuse to give you freebies.

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