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YouTube makes money by selling access to your eyeballs. The ad / Adblock arms race is amusing and all, but the only winning move is not to play. Take your atten
by more_corn 3y ago
YouTube makes money by selling access to your eyeballs. The ad / Adblock arms race is amusing and all, but the only winning move is not to play. Take your attention someplace else.
This is how you win.
- Gigachad 3y agoThis is why I pay for YouTube. The content provides decent value and I don’t want to see ads.
- theshrike79 3y agoYea, I caved in too finally a while ago. I just did the math, I watch X hours of YouTube a month, I value my time at X€/hour. It's cheaper to pay than for me to suffer through over 30 minutes of ads a month.
- herbst 3y agoI would prefer to pay for a better Adblocker. I won't let YouTube blackmail me with ads. I also don't trust Google/YouTube with my credit card data (had 15+ fraudulent charges on Google play one day, got the money back but zero explanation how this could have happened with 2fa) so as long as they don't support a secure payment method it's a big no anyway.
- theshrike79 3y agoGoogle is literally one of the world's biggest ad companies. They're constantly toeing the line of messing with ad blockers and letting people use them. It seems that someone has seen ad engagement go down enough to start doing stuff like this.
- timbit42 3y agoWhat will you do when YT Premium gets ads too?
- Gigachad 3y agoI’d stop using the service. But it makes no sense for them to not have an ad free option where you just pay them the value of what the ads would have given them.