What the actual heck is happening to the internet. It feels like it is being destroyed at a breakneck pace.
also, you now are required to log in to view twitter. I don’t care that much, but sometimes people would link to tweets and now I won’t be able to view them when they do.
Isn’t this just what many people predicted what would happen when everybody would use adblock? Now most people use some kind of blocker and some browsers even ship with a content blocker. Now pages need to make money in another way, so that’s either subscriptions, donations. or just force people to watch the ads anyway. I doubt people would want to donate any money to YouTube so then you get this.
It is not nice for users, but without income they would have to shut the site down. The same will happen when Lemmy gets popular, people will really have to donate to instance owners or they will also be forced to get money in another way.
This feels incredibly charitable towards multibillion dollar corporations that are in a race to the bottom for pandemic level revenues by making these changes, but I’m no expert.
Oh, you mean the multibillion dollar corporations? The ones that get more per minute than many business will get in their whole existence, not to mention any of us people? No, adblocking is a drop in the ocean for them, that has always been bullshit, same with piracy. What we’re seeing is the result of economical effects outside of all this, namely changes in interest rates, all the VCs and shareholders are now demanding the return of their investments at any cost. That’s why ALL of them are squeezing at the same time.
And about Lemmy instances? Absolutely! We cannot depend on the generosity of admins forever, and i’m OK with this.
“The 2030’s are going to be a reckoning for how much of the 21st century was built on the back of low interest rates.” See Adam Conover’s interview with Dan Olson of Folding Ideas.
Turns out that storing and delivering petabytes of data isn’t free.
We never assumed it was, where do you think these billionaires got their money?
And so the global enshittification grows…
if youtube could win against adblockers, they wouldn’t need to get manifest v3 to destroy their functions. firefox users stay winning
They can go to extreme lengths to make it work, such as not playing the video if not adds are detected or embedding the ad directly into the video. Not even Firefox can escape those things.
there are ways to counter that like fetching an embed player and imposing that onto the page, or sending an api call that says the ad played, or vpn to a country without ads for a tiny portion of the loading process, etc
we proved that with twitch where you can still very much block ads despite all they’ve done to avoid it
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I agree. I use it mostly for music, but there are many other ways to find music. I’ve been listening to a lot of internet radio lately. I’ve occasionally watched howto videos, but for most things I prefer to read instructions for something, with a photo if necessary.
How exactly are they going after Invidious?
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Thanks for the link👍
I will never pay the richest company in the world to watch YouTube. Then I just don’t watch and instead contribute to something new that is distributed and federated.
ah, ok, i will simply not watch youtube videos.
I guess this will be an unpopular opinion, but YouTube is justified in doing this imo. Video hosting isn’t cheap, especially providing 4K & 8K. They’ve gotta be able to support costs somehow, and if you’re not paying for Premium, you should be paying with ads. You’re also preventing the content creators from being compensated for content that you find valuable, useful, and/or entertaining.
I know ads are annoying, and I hate them just as much as you do. But a big reason why we have people who make super niche videos that help you learn how to fix something on your car or those regular videos that you watch every week is because the creators are able to get compensated for their work. Are you really saying that utility and entertainment isn’t worth 30 seconds of ads and it’s better to not support them at all?
Part of the reason we’re in this enshittification era of social media is because of the expectation of social media to be free. We need to learn from our past mistakes. It’s not sustainable.
Yeah, I kind of agree on this. The real question is: is YouTube currently profitable, and they’re trying to squeeze even more out of users?
It would be nice if companies could look at a tidy profit and just say “that’s enough” and leave it be. Alas, that’s not how capitalism operates…
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May I ask why? That seems unsustainable to expect to be able to get the same amount of entertainment and utility from creators without helping compensate them.
Also, I would argue monetization has had to increase because of people using adblockers and the Silicon Valley mentality of “grow first, make money later.” Now that interest rates are high, social media companies are being forced to make money wherever they can since money isn’t cheap anymore.
If this is purely companies already being profitable and trying to just suck as much money as possible from their user base, then I would agree with you. But Twitter has been rumored for months to be close to having their lights shut off, and Reddit apparently isn’t profitable. Idk about YouTube, but I wouldn’t be surprised if they’re not profitable and/or wouldn’t be able to exist without Google being its parent company today due to their other businesses diversifying their revenue streams.
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That makes sense. Thank you for taking the time to share your perspective.
I pay for YouTube premium, and use a YouTube blocker. I’ve been seeing weird issues. It’s pissing me off. I feel like this is nearly lawsuit territory if they don’t resolve it.
I have Premium plus I use uBlock and have never had a problem.
Begun the ad wars have
Lol do it, shoot your own foot I guess.
What kinda bugs me about youtube premium is that even if you pay you still get ads via baked in sponsors. I know creators have the right to do what they want with there content but I wish as a user there is an economical opiton to truely block ads.
Currently there are two paid models:
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Nebula like services. I kinda wish more platforms like this would popup since atleast when you use them you truely get no ads (no baked in nor platform injected). While they have a lot of creators a lot of creators are missing from the platform (its mostly education/tech focused).
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Patreon/Floatplane. Now this is typically the more popular option with creators as it guarantees a reasonably stable cash flow. The problem is as a user if you have to subscribe to multiple patreons for adfree content it can easly get to the cost of a cable bill (assume each creator charges $10 per month if you have 10-20 creators your follow you could be looking at a minimum of $100-$200 a month just to enjoy adfree content).
A kinda caviot is idk how much it costs in time/labor for production of youtube videos for major channels like linus. It could be that services like Nebula/Vessle would never be able to cover production cost hence why a patreon model is used. Even youtube ads if I recall only was able to cover about only one of their employees saleries (a lot but not enough to sustain the company).
I hope this post didn’t come of as selfish/greedy.
SponsorBlock does a good job skipping the sponsored ads that the uploaders put in their videos.
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the rise of the ad blocker blocker blockers begins.
Not… So… Fast… We shall counter with our ad blocker blocker blocker blockers!
Fuck em. I’ll use nebula.
Hosting 4k video coasts a lot of money. I don’t understand people that think Google need to subsidies it. It need to make money.
They let you pay a very reasonable monthly fee for unlimited music and video stream.
They let me pay? What? You got it the wrong way, I pay for things I consider worth my money. That’s the only thing that happens, nobody is letting me pay. What a strange way of thinking
