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YouTube puts third-party clients on notice: Show ads or get blocked (arstechnica.com)

submitted 7 months ago by dvdnet62@feddit.nl to c/technology@lemmy.ml

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[–] mjhelto@lemm.ee 117 points 7 months ago (46 children)

I'll give up on YouTube before I give up my ad blocks or 3rd party apps. Fuck off Google.

[–] Spotlight7573@lemmy.world 40 points 7 months ago (2 children)

That's likely what they want. If you're not viewing their ads and your third-party app is even blocking all the tracking, then you are not providing any value to them to keep you as a 'customer'. All it does is reduce their hosting and serving costs when you're blocked or when you eventually stop using it.

[–] monobot@lemmy.ml 15 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Thing is you also stop sharing and commenting and engaging with other users. If it wasn't useful they would pull the plug long ago, nothing technical is preventing them.

[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 5 points 7 months ago

kind of, i still use youtube normally without issues with firefox + ublock.

they didnt succed in kicking me out just yet

[–] hawgietonight@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I recall Louis Rossmann saying something along those lines, and sounded perfectly reasonable to me.

[–] prole@sh.itjust.works 5 points 7 months ago

Only reasonable to a capitalist who sees everything as zero-sum.

[–] B0rax@feddit.de 9 points 7 months ago (2 children)

It will go the way of Reddit…

[–] ripcord@lemmy.world 9 points 7 months ago

Almost no impact to their userbase or revenue?

[–] helenslunch@feddit.nl 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

LOL what are you talking about? The users had a hissy fit but after that Reddit got everything they wanted. The users mostly all returned a few days later and it was business as usual. Since then they opened up about selling user data and IPO'd and still nothing.

It's become abundantly clear now that there's level of abuse these users won't endure.

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