youtube getting more aggressive… i’ve got firefox and ublock but this shit is still coming up

  • FartsWithAnAccent@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I knew Google would get around to killing YouTube sooner or later: Looks like the slow death has begun.

    Like all things Google that people like: It must die, Google will not allow it to live.

    Coming to you in 2025: GoogleTube, brought to you by Alphabet!

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      1 year ago

      there’s enough people mindlessly consuming content off the site via mobile or tv, or are clueless about adblockers to begin with, youtube will continue to exist and be profitable even if every adblocking user never visited the site again.

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      1 year ago

      YouTube ensuring it gets ad revenue is the exact opposite of killing it.

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        1 year ago

        It’s always amusing to see people claiming to be these masters of business strategies pushing such excellent advice as “pay money to provide a service to people who supply no revenue”.

        Don’t get me wrong; there absolute is a point where you can be so overly burdensome that you’re going to push legitimate customers away and ultimately hurt yourself more than you help, and YouTube absolutely does do some stupid things, but business is so much more complicated than people like to think.