@TangledHyphae to TechnologyEnglish • 1 year agoGoogle admits it's making YouTube worse for ad block userswww.theregister.comexternal-linkmessage-square311arrow-up11.33Karrow-down156cross-posted to: [email protected][email protected]
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minus-square@ElectroNeutrinolinkEnglish29•1 year agoTo be fair, what they want is to make money off of you, be it through metadata or through advertising. It’s just that sending you videos happens to be the model which they use to get the metadata or advertising income.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish15•1 year agoIf they wanted to make money off of me then they should have kept the Pixel Pass as a thing so I’d have a reason to have YT premium Or make YT premium worth it But nah, they’d rather ruin the product I was paying for, so now they get nothing. At least then I’m not paying for it to get worse
To be fair, what they want is to make money off of you, be it through metadata or through advertising. It’s just that sending you videos happens to be the model which they use to get the metadata or advertising income.
If they wanted to make money off of me then they should have kept the Pixel Pass as a thing so I’d have a reason to have YT premium
Or make YT premium worth it
But nah, they’d rather ruin the product I was paying for, so now they get nothing. At least then I’m not paying for it to get worse