See as much as I dislike the company, I can see how it would make sense from a business and logic point of view. They are paying for the servers and, to some extent and form, for the content, and by using any ad blocking content you sabotage their earnings from this platform. I'm surprised they are not blocking browsers with said plugins, but that would cause a major uproar. But then again, not much competition around...

[–] chakan2@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago

Google is a Trillion dollar company. Fleecing the YouTube users for another 10m a year is pure hardcore end game free market capitalism.

Fuck them.

[–] Honytawk@lemmy.zip 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

They are sabotaging their own platform because of greed.

Most wouldn't be using an ad blocker if it weren't for their anti-consumer practices.

[–] Kaizodrack@lemmy.eco.br 1 points 11 months ago

fr, i didn't use for the longest time because a 5 seconds ad before every video and some on the side never bothered me much, it was when it started being 2 UNSKIPABBLE ADS BEFORE EVERY VIDEO, PLUS MID ROLL ADS that I couldn't deal with it anymore

[–] VindictiveJudge@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

Sure, the money has to come from somewhere, but, no ad server has ever managed to fully eradicate malware from the ads they serve and some sites have so much of the page covered in ads that the site simply isn't navigable without an ad blocker. The first is on the ad server companies, but the second one is just stupid. I will simply never trust ad servers anymore after having seen computers destroyed by ad-delivered malware, including one of my own. Even if the websites themselves go back to a more restrained and reasonable number of ads, I will never turn my ad blocker off for simple safety reasons.