Re:YouTube's Anti-Adblock and uBlock Origin
by pohuing on Sunday October 29, 2023 @09:26PM
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Most Internet traffic happens with the agreement that you watch ads alongside the content you actually want to see. This is not a fringe position, it's the absolute majority of all traffic.
If you don't want to see the ads, you can just not use my service, what's so hard to understand there.
Re:YouTube's Anti-Adblock and uBlock Origin
by blooalien on Sunday October 29, 2023 @11:23PM
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That's actually a mentality that was "bolted on" by the advertising industry after the fact, once they realized how utterly wrong they were about their assertion that "The Internet is just a passing fad. Nobody will ever want to advertise on the Internet." (That's an almost exact quote from a lot of advertising folks I talked to back in the early days of the Internet, when websites were just starting to get popular.) Prior to their involvement in the Internet, it was purely just a network of networks, not a giant global advertising platform. They "jumped on the bandwagon" and corrupted it to their needs, and everyone else's wants and needs be damned, and then they convinced everyone "It's always been that way".
The internet is not a platform for exchanging services for the promise that you viewed a short video. It is a general purpose platform, on which you happen to be able to almost implement said exchange. Trying to alter the premise of the internet in order to remove that "almost" is immoral. If you don't feel that way, that's a pretty fundamental disagreement that is likely unreconcilable.