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YouTube tests blocking videos unless you disable ad blockers(www.bleepingcomputer.com)

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gigachad@feddit.de
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We’ll find a way around it, if not go to hell YT. Apart from posters in the real world, I am living a 100% ad-free life and I’m super happy about it.

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IronTwo@beehaw.org
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Okay but I don’t understand. Isn’t paying to remove ads a fair deal? I don’t know, I pay for YouTube Premium and I’m kinda happy about it. The price seems fair; you get no ads, you get to download stuff, enables picture-in-picture and background playback. YouTube has been my main source of entertainment for the last couple of years so it’s the only subscription I have alongside Spotify.

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jws_shadotak@lemmy.world
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The problem isn’t so much that there are ads. The problem is also what kind of ads they’re playing. YouTube has been known to play inappropriate ads without vetting them - think of those awful mobile game ads with a heavy sexual tone.

This stuff also seems to explicitly target videos that kids might watch.

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lemmein@lemmy.world
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Yeah until they start showing ads for Premium as well. You know it’s going to happen eventually

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Jeremy [Iowa]@midwest.social
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Isn’t paying to remove ads a fair deal?

If the price were reasonable, community practices especially regarding monetization and moderation were acceptable, telemetry-tracking javascript minimal, etc. then sure.

But… we’re not there.

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gigachad@feddit.de
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Absolutely, you are free to make every kind of contract if you like. Personally, I am not very invested in youTube, I don’t watch any streamers or youTubers, it’s just a video hosting platform for me. I am boycotting Google wherever I can, it is a privacy desaster and dystopia-like enterprise. NewPipe has all the ‘features’ as well, if it breaks I just let YouTube go…

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coffeeisnotlatte@latte.isnot.coffee
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I could live without youtube for sure, I have more of a Reddit problem than a YouTube problem… but it seems they fixed that for me.

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