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YouTube's new anti-adblock measures

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tlogan ◴[21 Jun 25 01:25 UTC] No.44333733[source]▶
Why do we justify blocking ads, even when we know the content we’re consuming isn’t free to create and even if the content is free, it still costs money to store and distribute?

We often rationalize using ad blockers because ads can be intrusive or annoying. But let’s asking ourselves: Why do we feel entitled to get this for free?

This isn’t a moral judgment. I genuinely want to understand the reasoning.

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psychoslave ◴[21 Jun 25 02:23 UTC] No.44333979[source]▶
It takes a lot of time, money, care, education and love to grow human individual. Who would dare to even start considering paying high fees for the honor of receiving some of their time and attention? Why are video provider not paying people to obtain this privilege? No one dare to think they can get that for free, right?
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aprilthird2021 ◴[21 Jun 25 19:19 UTC] No.44340037[source]▶
They are paying you, they are paying you with free content. It's actually a trade. Free content in exchange for your attention on ads
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1. psychoslave ◴[22 Jun 25 06:02 UTC] No.44344215[source]▶
That's not how it works at societal level. The social structure is funnelling people to some mind-time eater. The fact that it's labeled free doesn't matter much. There is nothing as free content consumption, because people necessarily need to pay with time and attention they allocate to access it, not even mentioning all the extra burden like acquiring access to the device/platform/seat/whatever without which there is no way one is going to be spectator of anything.

One can always pay more attention at the continuous flow of local events that cosmos provide to self, instead of whatever other humans wish they would focus on.