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[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago (3 children)

I get it, no one likes ads on youtube. But, you realize that they have to pay the people that are producing content as well as pay for the storage space to gold all of this content. Why does everyone think that can just be free?

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago

Finding and innovating new ways to fuck people with ads.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (3 children)

Youtube is aware that serving ads to people who hate ads is going to reduce these brands' value, right? I thought that was the reason they were ok with adblockers before...

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

YouTubes past moves have been to make it impossible to block adds. What else is new in the world?

Is water still wet?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (4 children)

I'm surprised at this point that people are still trying to circumvent Terrible. Just stop using YT altogether.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Just stop using YT altogether.

They should but easy to say than done. In the end they will return back to it if no better or at least equal alternatives are out there to fill the vacuum.

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