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"The experiment is meant to urge users to disable their ad blockers or subscribe to YouTube Premium."
Yeah, and Youtube can eat shit and die, then.
Haven't seen this bullshit myself, yet, but I will be sorely tempted to just straight up delete my account and never use Youtube again, if I ever do get hit with it.
Fuck advertising forever. Fuck marketing forever. Fuck commercials forever. Fuck paywalls forever. It's also because of advertisers that Youtube content creators are becoming so limited, like being forced to not have swears or whatever in the first arbitrary number of minutes of a video or else be demonetized.
Remember when one of the main reasons people switched to cable TV versus regular network over-the-air TV was to get away from commercials? Remember when commercials almost immediately came to cable too, and people switched to online shit like Youtube and streaming to get away from TV commercials? And then when ads came to Youtube and streaming (and the Internet in general), people started using ad blockers? I'm not sure what comes after the attempts to threaten and bully people into not using ad blockers, but I doubt it will be pleasant for anyone involved.
Ads are bullshit. They always have been, and they always will be. Find less obnoxious ways to make money, Internet.
Yeah, and Youtube can eat shit and die, then.
Haven't seen this bullshit myself, yet, but I will be sorely tempted to just straight up delete my account and never use Youtube again, if I ever do get hit with it.
Fuck advertising forever. Fuck marketing forever. Fuck commercials forever. Fuck paywalls forever. It's also because of advertisers that Youtube content creators are becoming so limited, like being forced to not have swears or whatever in the first arbitrary number of minutes of a video or else be demonetized.
Remember when one of the main reasons people switched to cable TV versus regular network over-the-air TV was to get away from commercials? Remember when commercials almost immediately came to cable too, and people switched to online shit like Youtube and streaming to get away from TV commercials? And then when ads came to Youtube and streaming (and the Internet in general), people started using ad blockers? I'm not sure what comes after the attempts to threaten and bully people into not using ad blockers, but I doubt it will be pleasant for anyone involved.
Ads are bullshit. They always have been, and they always will be. Find less obnoxious ways to make money, Internet.
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Date: 2023-07-02 12:44 am (UTC)From:no subject
Date: 2023-07-02 04:45 pm (UTC)From:no subject
Date: 2023-07-03 02:24 am (UTC)From:Worse case, if they refuse to let me watch the few videos I watch, I'll just stop using their site period like they want. It's not like they're paying their creators much anyway per ad view. (Some creators pinning that at about 1 dollar per 1000 views, on average. Meaning at times it's less than that depending on the content. And that's assuming the videos aren't demonetized because they said shit.