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YouTube isn't happy you're using ad blockers — and it's doing something about it (me.mashable.com)

submitted 1 year ago by L4s@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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YouTube isn't happy you're using ad blockers — and it's doing something about it::Annoying.

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[–] Zerfallen@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago (6 children)

I actually pay for Premium at the moment, but still would need to sit through baked in sponsored messages, and YouTube Shorts or other internal YouTube big banner service advertisements. So i still have uBlock (and sponsor block) anyway to remove that stuff. At which point... Why am i paying for Premium again? They made their site awful to use regardless of if you pay, unless you use adblocking and other extensions.

[–] raptir@lemdro.id 4 points 1 year ago

I left YouTube when they took away my grandfathered family plan, but Spotify has the same crap. Sponsored home screen recommendations, concert recommendations for bands I've never listened to, etc...

[–] Usernameblankface@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Then we're back to cable, with constant ads in a paid service.

[–] SuperSpruce@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

I think the creators are free to bake in sponsored segments, but I totally agree with the rest of it. YT is treating us like lab rats and pushing tons of unwanted unnecessary stuff on us. I don't really want to reward that behavior with a monthly subscription.

This is a problem with so many monthly subscriptions: Instead of treating the continuously paying customers well to keep them in, they treat them as fat wallets that they can potentially milk more out of.

[–] JasSmith@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

I am VERY close to giving up Premium. In-content sponsorship is becoming so bad I can’t watch it without SponsorBlock. Since I need third party apps to achieve a reasonable experience anyway, I’m not really sure what I’m paying for. Once the EU forces Apple to allow installing apps outside the App Store, I might cancel.

[–] joshhsoj1902@lemmy.ca 0 points 1 year ago

Part of the reason YouTubers have 3rd party sponsor spots is because viewer an blocking makes their Adsense revenue unreliable.

YouTube premium helps address that for creators.

It wouldn't surprise me if some sponsors already demand viewership data to know how many people are skipping baked-in sponsor spots and uses that to pay creators less.

Finding more ways to avoid compensating creators isn't going to make the situation better.

[–] Contend6248@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Incoming, Youtube Premium+ with SponsorBlock.

Youtubers will mark their sponsored segments and get a higher payout for that.

[–] el_bhm@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Spoiler: ads money is so low people need to do sponsor blocks and patreons.

[–] PrettyLights@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

There were lots of quality YouTube creators before monetization.

Can't we go back to that?