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Google admits it's making YouTube worse for ad block users (www.theregister.com)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

As a Premium user who still had uBlock installed, I was noticing the other day a loading problem when I had it activated until I deactivated and reloaded. Still, Google is entirely within it's right to target people even according to one of its greatest critics: https://youtu.be/KMLMQRS3Krk?t=175

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Here is an alternative Piped link(s):

https://piped.video/KMLMQRS3Krk?si=topYLrXiiYqpF1GE&t=175

Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.

I'm open-source; check me out at GitHub.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

Piped doesn't respect the t time attribute.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Still, Google is entirely within it’s right to target people even according to one of its greatest critics:

[Citation required.]

Could you give us a timestamp of when he says that?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

It starts at 2:55, when I linked it, but it's a long argument. You can forward into 3:20 for the first short conclusion, 4:57 for his rebuttal of a common counterargument, and you can forward into 5:40 for his own experience with freeloaders. You can fast forward to 12:40, to 13:15, to 13:46, and to 14:16 as well, but he's pretty based throughout the whole video and the point remains consistent throughout.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

It starts at 2:55, when I linked it, but it’s a long argument. You can forward into 3:20 for the first short conclusion, 4:57 for his rebuttal of a common counterargument, and you can forward into 5:40 for his own experience with freeloaders. You can fast forward to 12:40, to 13:15, to 13:46, and to 14:16 as well, but he’s pretty based throughout the whole video and the point remains consistent throughout.

Thanks for the timestamps. I think just starting at 13:53 would be more than enough to make your point of "Google is entirely within it’s right to target people".

Having said that, generally speaking I would also strongly suggest people listening to the next point directly after that at 14:25 as well, and especially what he says starting at 15:43.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago

Yeah, but the point beginning on 14:25 is really for the business to determine, not something to demand or not demand from a consumer side. YT has had over a decade to determine what works for it and to see what's working for its competitors, and it may really be a last hail mary to save their business model with the collapse of easy investor money from silicon valley banks and stricter data privacy laws. As to 15:43, that's what I do already, I just pay for YT Premium even with uBlock Origin installed and data collection disabled as much as I can.