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YouTube's new anti-adblock measures

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990 points smitop | 1 comments | 20 Jun 25 17:01 UTC | HN request time: 0.396s | source
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ge96 ◴[20 Jun 25 23:38 UTC] No.44333140[source]▶
If adblock stopped working I would leave, which is interesting to me as I wonder what I'd do with my new time.

Funny I make YT videos too trying to build an audience, I'd like to not put ads on it but not my choice

I don't understand how people can just accept ads it drives me insane when some random shit starts playing

I already lost money with YT, I bought so many UHD movies on their platform ($20 ea) and they won't stream it in HD unless you're on a supported device or ad-ridden tv

edit: alright, aftrer seeing it's $13 I will get it, I have been converted

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arccy ◴[20 Jun 25 23:40 UTC] No.44333159[source]▶
"I want free hosting and an audience but I don't want to pay for it"
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ge96 ◴[20 Jun 25 23:41 UTC] No.44333162[source]▶
Yeah I get if that's why I said it

I do pay for it, the time to make the content

Sucks how everything is like that nowadays, IG, Reddit

(have to join a platform to be seen)

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1. PurestGuava ◴[21 Jun 25 07:09 UTC] No.44335313[source]▶
You pay to make the content. You would have to "pay" to make the content no matter where you hosted it. You don't pay YouTube to host it. That's a silly argument.

You seem to ignore that you would probably have no audience - or have a significantly smaller audience - were it not for YouTube hosting your content. They are providing you a service, but you seem to think that nobody - not you, not your viewers - should have to trade anything for that service, despite the hosting and streaming of video being one of the most expensive possible tech services in the world (bar perhaps running genAI models.)

I dunno it's just very annoying how a lot of people have memed themselves into this train of thought where the big tech companies aren't actually providing them anything of value, when if they decided to suddenly stop providing their services they would be up a creek without a paddle.