Re:YouTube's new anti-adblock measures
by mindslight on Friday June 20, 2025 @08:44PM
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Giving them money rewards them for pulling a bait and switch where they set the price of hosting plus watching video at free, but are now trying to extort the ecosystem after so many people spent effort uploading. Don't encourage hostile behavior.
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Re:YouTube's new anti-adblock measures
by frollogaston on Friday June 20, 2025 @08:53PM
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What did you want them to do instead, put ads or charge money per view starting in 2005?
Re:YouTube's new anti-adblock measures
by mindslight on Friday June 20, 2025 @09:04PM
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Sure, that would have been one honest option. Dumping an artificially free option into the market crowded out other options from being adopted or even developed.
Re:YouTube's new anti-adblock measures
by frollogaston on Saturday June 21, 2025 @03:33PM
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This is how all tech companies got funded, and still do. YouTube doesn't even have much of a network effect, it's just that nobody made anything comparable that was actually better.
Re:YouTube's new anti-adblock measures
by mindslight on Saturday June 21, 2025 @04:08PM
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> This is how all tech companies got funded, and still do
This isn't really germane to what's right. We all know how the surveillance industry operates - investment, lock in, and then enshittification. And sure, it seems to work for it in a pragmatic sense. But that doesn't mean we should find virtue in rewarding it, which was what the original argument is about.
> YouTube doesn't even have much of a network effect
I'm not interested in arguing with goalposts being moved, especially by ignorance.
Is it more right for you to expect something for nothing?
Re:YouTube's new anti-adblock measures
by mindslight on Sunday June 22, 2025 @04:08PM
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Youtube themselves created that expectation, so yes.