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YouTube is Losing The War Against Adblockers (www.howtogeek.com)

submitted 2 months ago by AnActOfCreation@programming.dev to c/technology@lemmy.world

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YouTube is intensifying efforts to combat adblockers, including blocking video playback and warning users of potential account suspension.
Increased ads on YouTube have driven many users to adblockers, hurting both YouTube’s ad revenue and content creators reliant on ad-based income.
Despite these measures, many users are leaving YouTube or finding workarounds, leading creators to seek alternative revenue streams off-platform.

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[-] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 78 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Its an all out assault on half your senses without an adblocker. Literal torture.

[-] seaQueue@lemmy.world 53 points 2 months ago

The entire web is like that without an ad blocker these days.

[-] Gsus4@mander.xyz 17 points 2 months ago

I miss those cheeky gif banners from the 2000s

[-] fasterthancat@lemmy.world 17 points 2 months ago

[With hindsight] The commercial use of the internet should never have been allowed.

[-] Gsus4@mander.xyz 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I want the internet to be a network of digital libraries...communication, public events and sharing space...personal pages...services...the commercial motive starts from there and eventually consumes the rest :/

[-] fasterthancat@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

I reckon without the rule changes in 1993-94 allowing commercial use that the internet would have turned into a significantly more useful utility with higher quality innovation than the advert laden train wreck that we have now.

[-] Gsus4@mander.xyz 1 points 2 months ago

Ok, apparently it wasn't as gradual as I thought, there was a determining moment in 93-94 with Netscape and HTTPS that made secure transactions possible for e-commerce.

[-] yogurtwrong@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

For this to happen, everyone using the internet should know HTML or there has to be a easy to use, MS Word-like web designer. And there should also be easy to use, free web hosting providers (neocities exists).

Owning a website as a non-techie should be normalized and be portrayed as "cool"

[-] Gsus4@mander.xyz 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Hey, neocities is pretty good, I think I'll try to use chatgpt to get some boilerplate site running and then keep adding to it :)

These sites make me happy https://melonking.net/melon?z=%2Funiverse%2F 😂

[-] ltxrtquq@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 months ago

Do online multiplayer video games count as a commercial use? I kind of like those

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