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YouTube could be testing a three-strikes policy for ad blocking (Update)
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A fine place for a first comment: they gotta pay for the videos somehow and hardly anyone will pay for premium.
The fact that no one who knows about ad-blockers will realistically turn it off for youtube kinda drives them into a corner right?
Alphabet’s profit increased 36 percent, to $20.64 billion, in the fourth quarter.
I think they're doing alright for themselves. There's no way this profit all comes from YouTube.
If YouTube premium came with privacy guarantees I would definitely pay for it. Sadly with YouTube premium you're being taken advantage for both your data and your money. If they picked one over the other I would definitely pick the paid one over them selling my personal data.
Personally, I doubt YouTube bring in any net profit. In fact, I think wendover just did a video about how expensive/hard it was getting Nebula up an running that that is at a fraction of the scale of YouTube.
Look, its hard defending Alphabet here, but things will enshittify if they don't have a clear and sustainable funding stream.
Even these Fediverse instances leave me with the question of how will they be paid for. Donations won't scale and any sort of monetization is...resisted.
Can you send me a link to that Nebula vid? It might provide me with some perspective.
Here: How We Built a $150 Million Streaming Platform with $100,000
Its a little braggy, but justified I guess.
Sweet, thank you. I'll be checking that out.
Not at all, Google is still a borderline monopoly in the ad industry, they make the rules. They could easily force a sustainable environment onto the industry instead.
Maybe they should address the core reasons that everyone who is aware uses ad blockers.
The core being that ads suck: i don't think this one is solvable.
Everyone says they are okay with "reasonable" ads, but I have been alive long enough to know that just isn't true as one mans reasonable is another's objectionable.
Besides, adblockers are needed all over the internet so if I have in there anyways, why would take extra steps to diminish the youtube experience for myself?