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Google admits it's making YouTube worse for ad block users (www.theregister.com)

submitted 11 months ago by TangledHyphae@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] Wrench@lemmy.world 0 points 11 months ago (2 children)

And as a service provider, they can choose to degrade your experience. It goes both ways.

[–] Chickenstalker@lemmy.world 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Except they want to send you videos. The power is with you, the viewer. Without you, advertisers will have no reason for buying ads. Google can't collect your data either. Realise that you have this power. Youtube is not like electricity or clean water. We can live without it if push comes to the shove.

[–] BraveSirZaphod@kbin.social 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

You have no value to advertisers if they can't serve you ads. By not doing so, they'll also cut down on bandwidth costs, so it's a double positive for them.

[–] CosmicCleric@lemmy.world -1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

You have no value to advertisers if they can’t serve you ads. By not doing so, they’ll also cut down on bandwidth costs, so it’s a double positive for them.

When you take your comment to its logical end though your comment makes no sense, as hence there's now no one to watch the videos and earn money from them doing so.

You can't force someone to consume your content, and if you earn money by people consuming your content, then the power is ultimately with them.

Plus, all this discussion, we're assuming that serving ads is the only way that Google can make money off you when watching the videos, which is not true. They can do the same kind of things they do with Gmail and make money from that.

[–] cole@lemdro.id 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

this assumption is only correct if EVERYBODY is using as blockers. They aren't - so it makes sense to cut off the proverbial leeches

[–] CosmicCleric@lemmy.world -1 points 11 months ago

this assumption is only correct if EVERYBODY is using as blockers. They aren’t - so it makes sense to cut off the proverbial leeches

That's why I said logical conclusion.

My bet would be the vast majority of people (what you call leeches) would eventually use ad blockers, as people in general usually do not like to watch commercials. (Again, speaking in endgame scenarios, AKA 'logical conclusion').

[–] SinningStromgald@lemmy.world 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

If the service degrades to far due to using ad blockers then I'll just stop watching anything on YouTube. Easy.

[–] BradleyUffner@lemmy.world 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Umm, ok. You were not making them any money before, when you were blocking their ads, why would they care if you left?

[–] ChunkMcHorkle@lemmy.world 0 points 11 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

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