YouTube intensifies fight against ad blockers showing pop-ups, and users are frustrated | Blocking ad-block users::undefined

  • TwilightVulpine@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    I definitely remember those days, a lot of sites were just unusable, and I hear some places like the Fandom wiki are returning to that level.

    I believe there is a small amount of ads it’s acceptable to live with, I do accept that content needs to be paid for somehow, but corporations can’t seem to ever accept a limit for themselves. Even though YouTube is already perfectly profitable and has been for years, it continues to escalate. Not to mention the rampant data-tracking that there is all over the place that people just accept because it’s invisible. Or that Google is working to weaken ad blocking and enhance tracking at a browser level.

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      11 months ago

      It doesn’t matter if you made 1,5 billion dollars last year. If you are not making 2 this year, you are a bad business and should declare bankruptcy.

      They would never not ramp up the ads, even if youtube was the most profitable thing ever.

      • TwilightVulpine@lemmy.world
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        11 months ago

        There is something fundamentally wrong with Capitalism. Watching the unhinged ways corporations behave pushes me further to the left every day.