YouTube’s Ad Blocker Crackdown Is Getting Harder to Dodge::The video platform now requires users to disable their ad blockers with an immovable pop-up.

  • @Strayce
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    671 year ago

    I give it a year, tops, before they start serving ads in premium too.

    • @Bongles@lemm.ee
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      171 year ago

      But that’s the only benefit of premium (on YouTube itself). I guess there are still YouTube originals but that kind of died as far as I can tell.

      • @Strayce
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        1 year ago

        Yes. And? You think they care? Premium isn’t there to benefit you, it’s there to benefit Google. As soon as the money stops coming in, they’ll look for other ways to squeeze it. We’re already seeing it with streaming providers shoehorning ads into their paid services. It’s not that much of a stretch.

      • @hypertown@lemmy.world
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        121 year ago

        The only benefit now, but what if they start to serve 30 non-skippable ads without premium and ONLY 5 with premium, what a deal! Right? If you hate ads you can just buy higher tier for ONLY $5 more.

        Let’s just keep fingers crossed for ublock…

    • @jet@hackertalks.com
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      1 year ago

      They’ll introduce premium platinum for 2x the price, and then normal premium will be changed to YouTube supporter class, with select advertisements

      But they’ll do this very quietly, and everyone will get grandfathered into YouTube supporter if they don’t do anything. So in public they’ll still say YouTube premium has no advertisements, even though they’ve moved the goal posts

      • @Strayce
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        91 year ago

        This is scarily believable.

        • Terrasque
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          11 year ago

          But on the good side, they offer 3 months of “reduced” cost ( but still more than old premium cost) for those that upgrade now

      • Dark Arc
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        1 year ago

        More realistically they’ll bump up the price of premium a bit more and then have a reduced ads tier for like $6-7. But, I also have my doubts about that. The business model is significantly different than other “streaming services”.