I salute comrade Google in their ongoing attempts to ruin every leisure activity until only domestic terrorism is left
Its incredible the way they’re destroying the circuses while we’re all so low on bread
Could be a chapter’s opening quote in some future history book.
They’re convinced it’s a vibecession amd we’re living large and whining about itm
Imagine life in a post‐Google world.
Google Realism.
Lmao the reason things like YouTube and streaming killed broadcast TV in the first place was because of the lack of advertising those platforms used to have.
They’re really trying to kill themselves with this
Hell, one of the appeals of cable TV when it first came out was that there weren’t any commercials. It’s a never-ending cycle.
Capitalist cycle:
Nature or the people make something good
Capitalism sees a chance to make profit and hollows out the good thing until it is a shell of its former self
They move on to the next thing.
They probably aren’t going to kill themselves. They’ve cornered a big enough section of the market that they can count on a large portion of their userbase staying. If this change increases their revenue by 45% and reduces their userbase by 30% its still a net gain. The longterm issue here is losing the creators that make really high quality content. But most of their revenue comes from people like Mr. Beast and random beauty vlogger and angry gamer man. So idk.
The problem with a 45% increase is that people who actually use adblockers is only around 10-20% of their userbase, but more intrusive ads will probably affect the other 80-90% of people and make at least some of those people use youtube far less as well. It also primes the market for a youtube competitor to come along and offer the same service, but with far less intrusive ads. I don’t believe any company can be “too big to fail.” I don’t think this will be some massive overnight thing though, but it might start a chain reaction that leads to people using something else in the future. (Like if something like TikTok started letting people make long form content in response to this, it could cause a lot of people to move to their platform from youtube)
TikTok is looking at opening up hour long vids
this will effectively kill the entire ASMR community.
nobody wants a loud ass ad injected into a soothing calming noise video. i’m just going to DL my favorite vids before this shit ruins them
if this kills freetube for me I’ll just stop using youtube altogether
my life will probably meaningfully improve
It’s kind of like how Reddit killing off 3rd party apps just made me stop wasting so much time on reddit.
Daily time on Reddit went to zero. I only go there for answers to obscure questions now
Same, now I waste the same amount of time on hexbear refreshing to see if there are new posts
Same
Be the change you want to see in the world, comrade
basically my position at this point.
Do it fuckers, free me!
the internet is a mind prison that we lock ourselves inside voluntarily, the perfect capitalist finger trap
and they’re making it so fucking bad that we don’t want to anymore
Hahahaha, this is what made me quit twitch, for good. I’ll do the same with YouTube. It’ll suck, yes, but it’ll ultimately be good for me and my mental health. 3 years from now I won’t miss YouTube.
Every ad executive should be thrown into the Marianas trench. Without pity or hesitation. Every tech nerd that facilitated their plans will be chained to them at the hip. One of them will be shot before they get tossed overboard.
How will we determine which gets shot? We’ll use an aLgOriThM.
wtf do not
modern problems require modern solutions - let ai watch adds
Tech companies doing everything they can lately to get me exclusively listening to vinyl, watching blu-rays, and reading paper books.
Love the strategy. 1. Buy a video streaming site, 2. run it at a loss for like 15 years because your other businesses print money, 3. now that there’s no competition just crank up the ads because where the fuck are people going to go lol
So far I’ve managed to get by with Firefox and an ad blocker, but the second I start seeing ads I’m dropping YouTube (which I should anyway) and putting in the effort to pirate music/movies/shows/etc.
Yeah all this means is pirates are going to start ripping popular youtube channels
damn I guess I’ll just have to actually commit to downloading and watching pirated TV shows and movies instead of endlessly grazing on video essays while I’m working on stuff
wouldn’t this also download the ad, if it gets injected in the video stream?
Noo! What the fuck. They’re breaking YT-dlp… Fuck sake. Hopefully they can code in a workaround.
Yep… might be a good idea to archive your favorite videos, tutorials, etc before it’s rolled out to everyone
It’ll be a matter of time before we have a database of frame by frame hashes for each video. You can throw pretty much anything you want at the problem once you’re outside of the browser.
Sounds pretty resource intensive at scale… I’ll be impressed if they pull it off.
Also a bizarre move considering they are so hard on for ads because Youtube is incredibly expensive to maintain. You are going to pay for comically large servers by… burning more computer time inserting ads into streams? Google screwed adbuyers before by not actually showing the ads where they were supposed to, Idk why they are trying so hard instead of doing more of that.
I was of the impression that a farcically low number of people even used adblockers in the first place.
As of 2021 it was roughly a third of people using them. No idea what it is now.
32.8% of people worldwide use them at least sometimes. China stays winning the world’s highest adblocker use (total and per capita) at 40%