Gregory's Server@grs @josephcox if you are blocking ads and not paying for premium then by definition you are not a customer
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 @corbin @josephcox I paid for Premium right up until they pulled this adblocking bullshit. So I refuse to give any money to a company who pulls such tactics. They're making money hand over fist as it is.  @corbin @grs @josephcox Lol, yeah right, like they don't make plenty of money by selling your data and reporting the legitimately-generated view  @bamboombibbitybop @grs @josephcox google doesn’t sell user data because it hoards data about you and used that to target its own advertisements, if you’re blocking ads then there’s nothing to pay the server bills or the creators with. also if your answer is “youtube should just be subsidized by google search revenue” then that’s opening the door for antitrust action that could just kill YT entirely.  @corbin @bamboombibbitybop @grs @josephcox ad blockers have been around for decades. Google is enshittifying its offering because it needs to squeeze more revenue from its users. Instead of making their offering more appealing, they're making it worse in the hope that users will pay them to put it back. @tob @bamboombibbitybop @grs @josephcox “enshittifying” is making people watch short ads or pay for premium to pay for countless terabytes of storage and bandwidth, global CDs, and revenue sharing with creators? okay. @corbin @bamboombibbitybop @grs @josephcox How does adding a 5 second delay to videos not qualify as making their product worse. Also, the content creators are getting screwed, too. Not by ublock. @corbin @tob @bamboombibbitybop @grs @josephcox finaly i find this man from meme irl :blobcatthumbsup: |
@corbin @josephcox You're right, in Google's eyes we're the product. And our refusal to become so, and decide what we want and don't want in our browser, we're the bad guys.