this post was submitted on 01 Nov 2023
6 points (100.0% liked)

Technology

59296 readers
4582 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.


Our Rules


  1. Follow the lemmy.world rules.
  2. Only tech related content.
  3. Be excellent to each another!
  4. Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
  5. Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
  6. Politics threads may be removed.
  7. No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
  8. Only approved bots from the list below, to ask if your bot can be added please contact us.
  9. Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed

Approved Bots


founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
 

YouTube's Ad Blocker Crackdown Is Getting Harder to Dodge::The video platform now requires users to disable their ad blockers with an immovable pop-up.

all 15 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] Strayce@lemmy.sdf.org 36 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I give it a year, tops, before they start serving ads in premium too.

[–] Bongles@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago (3 children)

But that's the only benefit of premium (on YouTube itself). I guess there are still YouTube originals but that kind of died as far as I can tell.

[–] spicehoarder@lemm.ee 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] Bongles@lemm.ee 1 points 3 days ago

Kind of. If anybody signs up for that premium lite they're fools.

[–] Strayce@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yes. And? You think they care? Premium isn't there to benefit you, it's there to benefit Google. As soon as the money stops coming in, they'll look for other ways to squeeze it. We're already seeing it with streaming providers shoehorning ads into their paid services. It's not that much of a stretch.

[–] hypertown@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

The only benefit now, but what if they start to serve 30 non-skippable ads without premium and ONLY 5 with premium, what a deal! Right? If you hate ads you can just buy higher tier for ONLY $5 more.

Let's just keep fingers crossed for ublock...

[–] popemichael@lemmy.sdf.org 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It wouldn't shock me if they removed ublock origin from the chrome store

[–] Gabu@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Just use Firefox. It's better as a browser, anyway.

[–] V0lD@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I will when they finally fix dragging tabs between windows

Edit: I'm not saying the operation isn't functional, I'm saying it lacks certain small visual feedback aspects like popping a tab out into a new window while dragging. This in and of itself isn't breaking, but Firefox had a lot of rough edges like that every time I used it, and I'm using this specific one as a benchmark to judge if I should give the browser a shot again

[–] Trail@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Huh, what is the issue? Been working fine for me for years.

[–] Moderationslog@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago

Classic layer 8 problem

[–] netchami@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 year ago

Some solutions:

[–] Arthur_Leywin@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Are ads really that useful when the users subjected to them hate ads from the start?

[–] SrTobi@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago

Not to the advertiser, but to the one getting money for the ad.