I know reddit is low hanging fruit, but I just can’t with these dweebs.
Something has changed. Using an adblocker goes against the YouTube ToC, so Google has started to detect them. You need to disable Adblock for YouTube, and it should go back to normal.
fuck google for doing this.
Well, Google has every right to do so. It has to pay the content creators for their work, so people need to pay either (as you and I do) through Premium or by having advertisements. When people use an ad-blocker to watch YouTube, they are freeriding on the creators’ work, which is disrespectful to say the least.
why yes, I talk about people who use ad blocker to not have their consciousness invaded by advertisements using “welfare queen” language. how did you know?
They don’t pay creators on YouTube as much as they used to.
I’m not surprised. People are blocking ads all over the place.
YouTube has recently been cracking down on ad-blockers, because they deprive content creators of their rightful fees. Recent changes have caused ad-blockers to misbehave.
Or just, you know, pay for the content? It’s called YouTube Premium. People don’t complain about Netflix or Amazon Prime charging money.
Anyway, it’s your decision what you choose to do. I choose to pay.
there are tech workers out there who unironically believe that viewing ads is a moral imperative. I want to say “nothing human is alien to me” but these fuckers are just unbelievable
These people are so funny, and have been around forever. They spend time customizing their filters to only block certain kinds of ads, or not blocking on sites they like. I can’t imagine.
All so they can “support the site” by being subjected to ads for hard lemonade.
That’s what gets me! If you engage with the concrete activity they put so much weight on - observing some banners for hard lemonade or whatever interspersed with the content you’re reading - it’s just so absurd in a way that is hard to capture. A company is paying to subtly massage my neurons so I possibly have a 5% higher chance of buying hard lemonade next time I pick up a 6-pack for a friend’s gathering. This is the value I bring to the table, shaping a bit of my soul to corporate ends.
The wildest thing about this is that these (usually affluent) people could quite literally throw $10 at the site, keep their adblock on, and then probably have donated more directly than the ad-platform EVER would have generated off of them.
Patreon is such a better model for Internet content than ads that it’s unbelievable that it took so long to come about. I guess the problem is that it cuts corpos out of the loop.
the value of a commodity is the socially necessary labor time required to produce it, but the price of a commodity is whatever the capitalists can get away with charging it. As the SNLT for so many digital commodities approaches zero, the only way to make money off of it is to employ a parasitic rent-seeking software-as-a-service or ad-blitzkrieg model. The alternative to this model built on artificial scarcity and planned obsolesence and a never ending arms race between different kinds of software developers is just nationalizing the tech companies and making data free if it doesn’t cost anything to (re)produce. but we can’t have that.
