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The salesman can cut the car you want from your buying options, or stick conditions on it that will make up for the difference with the other models. That's wh

The salesman can cut the car you want from your buying options, or stick conditions on it that will make up for the difference with the other models. That's what we're seeing with Youtube for instance: your choice is to pay Youtube's price for Premium (litteraly paying to not get bullied), sit through all the ads in the world, or get three strikes after playing the ad-blocking cat and mouse game for long enough. Of course you're still free to go somewhere else, in a world where even public guides and presentations will often be pushed on youtube only, to alleviate for the bandwidth costs on standard web services.

jen20 1y ago
> The salesman can cut the car you want from your buying options, or stick conditions on it that will make up for the difference with the other models. My favourite approach to this is to write an email to all dealerships within the radius I’m willing to go, explaining what I want, then “publicly” make them bid for my business in a thread with their peers. I’ve had it work several times now.
fc417fc802 1y ago
> get three strikes after playing the ad-blocking cat and mouse game for long enough I've never encountered this. What is it?
- makeitdouble 1y ago
  https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/14129599?hl=en https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/14129599?hl=en Depending on when you look at it, it might be worked around or fully enforced again, it comes and go, but at least Youtube doesn't seem willing to give up that stance entirely.
- bmicraft 1y ago
  People using subpar ad blockers mostly, or more than one.
  - makeitdouble 1y ago
    To note, what u-block is doing to workaround this is far from the trival "just block the ad" behavior, and I expect it to break again (perhaps within weeks ?) Then the waltz will go on as usual, until the ads are straight baked into the video-feed with the server refusing to serve the rest of the content on a per-client base.

jen20 1y ago

> The salesman can cut the car you want from your buying options, or stick conditions on it that will make up for the difference with the other models. My favourite approach to this is to write an email to all dealerships within the radius I’m willing to go, explaining what I want, then “publicly” make them bid for my business in a thread with their peers. I’ve had it work several times now.

fc417fc802 1y ago

> get three strikes after playing the ad-blocking cat and mouse game for long enough I've never encountered this. What is it?

makeitdouble 1y ago
https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/14129599?hl=en https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/14129599?hl=en Depending on when you look at it, it might be worked around or fully enforced again, it comes and go, but at least Youtube doesn't seem willing to give up that stance entirely.
bmicraft 1y ago
People using subpar ad blockers mostly, or more than one.
- makeitdouble 1y ago
  To note, what u-block is doing to workaround this is far from the trival "just block the ad" behavior, and I expect it to break again (perhaps within weeks ?) Then the waltz will go on as usual, until the ads are straight baked into the video-feed with the server refusing to serve the rest of the content on a per-client base.