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You don’t like the fact that they make money by showing you ads? Take your business somewhere else.

YouTube has been profitable for years before they implemented these anti-adblock measures.

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Where do their profits come from?

Stop and think for a second. Nothing I said is defending this move towards aggressively combating ad locking. I don’t think YouTube is the good guy in this scenario.

But on the other hand I am tired of people who don’t want solutions they just want to bitch. There’s almost a dozen of these posts on Lemmy alone about YouTube and their draconian new adblock punishing tactics. I don’t care if you’re upset. I care that you’re actively upvoting and sharing solutions for the people who want them.

I gave this person other options besides just “pay for it or quit YouTube”. That was on purpose.

Good day.

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Where do their profits come from?

The rubes who don’t use adblockers and those who subscribe.

The point is that YouTube was profitable before implementing these anti-adblocking measures.

Nothing I said is defending this move towards aggressively combating ad locking.

You don’t like the fact that they make money by showing you ads? Take your business somewhere else.

Anyways man, have a good day. Gonna block you now.

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Just for the sake of posterity and in case anyone is actually looking for solutions: using an app to open YouTube in a new frame on Firefox absolutely will work to block ads and leave your adblockers of choice intact with no effect to your ability to watch YouTube or use your Google account if you have one.

The person above me didn’t read or didn’t understand. YouTube makes most of their profit from displaying ads and this is the business model that made them profitable. Trying to slide around the question so you can feel good about yourself is garbage. https://www.theverge.com/2020/2/4/21121370/youtube-advertising-revenue-creators-demonetization-earnings-google

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