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YouTube's plan backfires, people are installing better ad blockers (www.androidauthority.com)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/technology@beehaw.org
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cross-posted from: https://lemdro.id/post/2883134 (!android@lemdro.id)

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[–] 28 points 2 years ago* (17 children)

Yeah, but I'm sure a lot of people just bought youtube premium. I know my friend did...stupid idiot.

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  • [–] 34 points 2 years ago* (4 children)

    I wonder how business owners feel about their advertisements being weaponized to push people toward subscription plans that eliminate advertisements.

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  • [–] 14 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Google doesn't give a shit what their advertisers think. It's not a "please buy our ads" situation, it's a "where else would you advertise online, you stupid fuck?" type of situation.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    Google reached that position by keeping the platform pleasant till no one else was left standing. That should be an antitrust activity in any free market. Remember this when you see Google gaslighting you about the moral implications of using adblocks.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    People that were running ad blockers were not seeing ads and business owners were not paying for those blocked ads. So I don't see why they would care at all.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago

    True, but people who used to be served one ad per video are now being served 4 or 5, which both lessens the value of each individual ad, and gives more incentive to get rid of them with premium

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  • [–] 21 points 2 years ago (10 children)

    I was going to buy premium then I saw the price. It's like 14 a month, 24 for family, per month. To add on top of that, every subscription service has been increasing prices so in a few years it's probably going to be 20/30 dollars a month. Additionally, I already pay Google for 2 TB drive space for personal for 11 dollars a month and 13 dollars a month for a company workspace with one user. So why would I pay 24 more dollars to Google, and 30 dollars down the road?

    Honestly, if Protonmail had better prices I'd likely switch but right now a more expensive service for fewer features isn't what I am going for. It's currently 30 dollars a month for only 3TB. I get 2 TB for just 11 dollars, family is free. Not to mention switching the whole family is a whole conversation and getting it to work on everyone's device is a headache with any service. As much as I would want to degoogle, I use Android, I use Google Voice, and I likely am not going to switch those. It's not really going to help me untie from Google and would just cause me headaches.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    I use Hetzner's Storage Share (which is a nextcloud instance) as my drive and pay around 5€ / mo for 1 TB. Depending on the features you want you could also use their Storage Box which is more like a plain network drive, and cheaper.. like 13€ / mo for 5 TB.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    I could justify the AU$30 per month for myself and my housemate, but at AU$43, they can GAGTGF.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    GAGTGF?
    I have no idea what this means, but I feel like it's probably something I'd like in my back pocket to pull out and throw in someone's face....kinda like pocket sand.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago

    I've had YouTube premium from the inception of their subscription model prior to/at the beginning of YouTube red, as I initially had a paid Google music subscription.

    Personally, there isn't a better option for the amount of hassle involved in my opinion. It's a family account, and managing so many people's YouTube experiences on at least a dozen different devices would be a nightmare I don't want to think about. (Multiple of each TV's, Roku's, Android phones, iPhones, pc's, etc)

    This isn't really relevant to your friend, it is quite silly when it's just one person not willing to do it for just themselves.

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