I haven’t watched an ad on youtube for at least the last 5 years. Ad blocking is cyber security.
They have been pushing adblock detecting technologies in some regions. I’m preparing for having to stop using Youtube when they roll it out here.
Ad blocking is basic hygiene at this point.
Does anyone else ever notice that the changes like this they make are done piece mail, brick by brick ,they continue to shitify the service. That’s intentional…Imagine you tube in the year 2009. I’m betting no one really remembers, and youtube made the same bet.
How many things have they taken away that users really like over the years think about it. Now imagine they did all those changes AT ONCE…TODAY… from 2005 at inception. Horrifying huh ?
Big companies always start off with an amazing array of “Standard Features” that they allow everyone to use, so that the users get hooked on them, then suddenly they make an announcement like this and they change, remove, or premium tier a feature. They know you wont like it… but they got you hooked and they know it and they dont care. It’s all driven at profiteering as much as they can off of you. Honestly I see youtube trying to become like Netflix by continuing to increase inconvenience with ads (for their profit), and ultimately making Youtube a completely payed service subscription to everyone.
They gaslight the great majority into just giving in to more ads, shittier service, and eventually a payed subscription by breaking your outrage up into small little pieces over time. STOP LETTING THEM !
Edit: So yeah Twitter/X as predicted.
Boiling the frog is one of Google’s favorite strategies
I read this as “YouTube will push even harder for non-skippable ads, and content creators can’t stop them anymore”
That’s because that’s what it says. They’re hardly trying to hide it.
I’m getting the feeling that within the next five years I’m going to be abandoning YouTube and just living without video content going forward.
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Check out PeerTube.
Smart content creators have been setting up websites, Patreons, merchandise shops, and all they need to jump ship when YouTube finally capsizes. The likely/easy/inexpensive alternative for content creators, is PeerTube.
Doesn’t matter. People will still eat that shit up! YouTube is the best example of Stockholm syndrome I’ve ever seen. This shit should be taught about in schools.
It’s much more banal. YouTube is simply a monopoly abusing its market power. People would use alternatives if they existed.
They exist!
- Peertube
- Odysee
- Rumble Above is just a few of them.
Are those actually hosting videos or just accessing YouTube? Because for the latter, most people still want the algorithm and the interaction/support to the creators they follow
All of those host videos themselves, they’re not like piped or invidious.
Oh that’s nice. Are many YouTubers cross posting there?
Hardly any, even though Odysee has an option to auto upload whatever you’re uploading to YT on their platform.
