@arstechnica@mastodon.social Ah, they want to become even less appealing to me? #sure #noproblem 🤣

@arstechnica@mastodon.social When I was a little boy, decades ago, I would complain about commercials on television. My parents told me to be grateful for commercials because they paid for the shows I watched, and I wouldn’t have the shows that I watched without them.

Mom and dad, I love you, but I would rather burn everything down and live ad-free. I think that was even the case then.

How the world turns.

@arstechnica@mastodon.social

Headlong toward irrelevance.

@arstechnica@mastodon.social Just another example of #enshittificaton

@arstechnica@mastodon.social I haven’t had a single YouTube vid play through today.
I don’t actively use any ad blockers to my knowledge. I see YouTube ads all the time generally, using default mobile safari.

@arstechnica@mastodon.social I do not sign in to use Google. I do not sign in to use YouTube. They track me anyway and I’m fine with that. I am not using ad blockers.

But if they demand account level tracking from all users, they are going to be tracking, and serving ads to , far fewer users and it will be their AND their advertisers loss.

@arstechnica@mastodon.social a culture of violence (America’s) knows only how to punish. Whether it does so through prisons, psych wards, or technology is irrelevant.

@arstechnica@mastodon.social Looks like someone wants to be irrelevant by the end of the year. Google, the parent company, already steals my data so why do they want more money?

I really wonder what creators make of this, @arstechnica@mastodon.social .

Every single creator I follow uploads to YouTube only because Google have corralled the overwhelming majority of viewers there and every single creator I follow also has another mechanism through which to receive donations from their most loyal fans – those who block or not.

I don’t think I’ve ever heard a creator claiming that viewers should disable their ad-blockers to preserve or protect the ad-share via YouTube.

@arstechnica@mastodon.social So be it. They are the losers since the content is largely evanescent forgettable and supremely non-essential.

@arstechnica@mastodon.social I tested in firefox and it still works fine there.
A wrong move that will cost!

• Google secretly manipulates the functionality of a browser,
• Affects the performance of computer systems,
• It uses computing resources without user consent
• increases energy consumption globally

How legal is what Google is doing?

This can be an interesting case for the European Court of Justice, which is just waiting to give them another fine of several billions!

#youtube #google

@arstechnica@mastodon.social They could have tried to find better ways to work with people. For example, the old simple text ad system. But no, instead they decided to double down. The thing is, this is one war they won’t win, one way or the other. Whether people just keep finding ways around it or even finally start moving to other services, this can’t (and must not!) work for Google.

@arstechnica@mastodon.social try #tampermonkey :)

@arstechnica@mastodon.social maybe if they didn’t put on so many adverts people might not install adblockers. I’ve given up with YT for this very reason

@arstechnica@mastodon.social aye, seemingly even for youtube premium subscribers. I just get random screwups when running on my ff with ublock origins.