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I wonder how long it takes for the ad-blockers to get around this.
by Ancalagon 3y ago
I wonder how long it takes for the ad-blockers to get around this.
- Krasnol 3y agoI wonder how long it takes until a different platform becomes more popular because of all this.
- recursive 3y agoAnd I wonder who's in a position to pay for it.
- kevinh 3y agoSeems like a platform base comprised of users who neither want to watch ads nor pay for an ad-free experience is not primed for success
- Krasnol 3y agoIt was never 1 or 0. It's just the market pressure to generate even more every quarter. There are ways around this and ways to still generate profits. It's not like nobody was watching ads. It's not ever ENOUGH people to watch ads because you have to deliver more for the shareholder horde.
- recursive 3y agoAnd after that, I wonder how long it will take google to get around that.
- freedomben 3y agoThis is going to lead us to a terrible place IMHO, where the ads are just encoded directly into the video stream so everything comes from the same origin making it very difficult for ad blockers by not giving them a different origin to block. Plus maybe rolling out widevine (DRM) for good measure. God I hate these races to the bottom.
- chaosbolt 3y agoSponsorblock does this well for sponsored segments, it even works on yt-dlp and you can download a video without the sponsored parts.
- freedomben 3y agowhoa amazing, thanks! It does make me mad that I pay for youtube premium and still have to see those sponsored segments.
- MaxikCZ 3y agoPirating was always a big part about convinience (and accesibility), not just money. Cracked games running without needing to scavenge for CD-rom etc. You know you fail when you gimp your free service and allow users to ungimp it for cash, while someone else ungimps it better for free. Big corps never understood this, with Valve being the only counterexample I can think of.
- gattilorenz 3y agoI already use sponsorblock, for the ads encoded in the video stream.
- variadix 3y agoYeah but presumably they won’t let you fast forward ads. AFAIK Twitch already does this, I’m surprised YouTube hasn’t.
- HDThoreaun 3y agoTwitch has a timer in the corner for when the ads will be over. Seems like it’d be pretty easy to create an adblocker that looks for that and just blanks the screen out during ads.
- recursive 3y ago
- anonymousab 3y agoGiven how a Google account or IP address ban or punishment on any of their services can basically annihilate your ability to use any of their services forevermore, including never being able to touch your emails or files ever again, I can see YouTube being very effective with this crackdown. Especially since they can/do also target any of your secondary accounts, and can also hit family members depending on various backend circumstances that users can't really know about.
- MaxikCZ 3y agoAnd you know what? There is life without google, too.
- anonymousab 3y agoIt is a major inconvenience for users of Google to lose access to Google services, especially if you have years and years of stuff in Gmail or drive or photos or YouTube. Regardless of the fact that you can find some sort of replacement for any of those things individually, it would be a major stumbling block and disruption for most users to suddenly no longer have access to their email/history. The average person does not have forwarding or mirroring of all that stuff set up. I posit that that disruption is enough of a deterrent to get users to stop using ad blocking on Google services once the consequences start being applied. Though that reminds me, I don't quite know what happens to your chrome bookmarks and settings if Google obliterates your profile's account. I assume that merely syncing will stop working, but perhaps more might be disrupted.
- pepa65 3y agoIt really doesn't take long to "take out" all your Google content and continue life elsewhere -- highly recommended for future-proofing.