YouTube's Anti-Adblock and uBlock Origin

Re:YouTube's Anti-Adblock and uBlock Origin by gwd on Sunday October 29, 2023 @04:52PM (#38062666)

I certainly understand the perverse incentive, but that's already the incentive we're working under. And how do you propose we fairly compensate people for the value they've created when making content? How can we support artists, journalists, and so on to do the work that we enjoy?

If everyone did as you suggest, spammy SEO sites will be the last to die, because the effort invested to make them is so much lower than the effort of quality content.

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Re:YouTube's Anti-Adblock and uBlock Origin by matheusmoreira on Sunday October 29, 2023 @05:23PM (#38062957)

> And how do you propose we fairly compensate people for the value they've created when making content?

> How can we support artists, journalists, and so on to do the work that we enjoy?

We either pay them before the work is completed or in an ongoing manner to support their activities. Patronage. Crowdfunding. Plenty of people seem to be achieving success via platforms like Patreon and GitHub Sponsors. This is ethical.

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Re:YouTube's Anti-Adblock and uBlock Origin by ndriscoll on Sunday October 29, 2023 @05:09PM (#38062828)

If they're worthwhile and looking to be paid, you pay them. If they're not worth paying, they go out of business, and SNR improves.

From what I've seen on youtube, almost all professional "content creators" make very shallow entertainment (or thinly veiled ads), which at least personally usually just makes me feel disappointed in myself for having wasted my time if I indulge.

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