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Aww. Are the greedy megacorporations upset that consumers are being greedy in return? Poor megacorporations. :c

Or you update your uBlock Origin blocklists and declare YouTube the war.

This is why Google has been using their browser monopoly to push their "Web Integrity API". If that gets adopted, they can fully control the client side and prevent all ad blocking.

well i for one ain't paying shit to google, nor am i watching any ads 👍

Still haven't gotten any on Firefox with Ublock Origin. The usual explanation is that it rolls out in stages, but I've nothing weeks later.

enshittification everywhere.

Kinda glad my uBlock Origin is still working.

This should be illegal, actually in Europe it's about to be...

why is everything being enshittified this year? :(

I will never watch 20 ads in a 15 minutes video, it's worse than television.

Make it a reasonable number of ads and I might consider it

Some youtubers are so greedy it's unreal, you barely see the red line because it's way too filled with yellow spaces

uBlock Origin and ReVanced users: I missed the part where that's my problem.

*you pay YouTube for the content they didn't make or they turn the thumbscrews.

Unpopular opinion: this is a good thing.

(Waits for down votes... )

This is healthy for the ecosystem, it makes it possible for other video platforms to compete, and be sustainable. Google providing the loss leader in video streaming makes it difficult for other platforms to exist, and sustain themselves, because they don't have Google's war chest.

So it's going to be a difficult transition, but now there is wiggle room for other platforms to exist. And with 1 gigabit, and 10 gigabit home internet connections becoming more common globally, we have options for more interesting gorilla distributed video streaming.

Yeah, no.. it's already overpriced.

Paramount + £6.99 Netflix £10.99 (standard) Youtube £12

Makes no sense.. they don't have anything like the production overheads. Stuff like Star Trek and Stranger Things are expensive. '10 greatest cat videos' is not.

The way Google is starting to abuse its position of power to crackdown on its users, its really comes to show the cracks in its armour.

It's the beginning of the end for Google.

Long live open source software!

More enshitification.

Who could have POSSIBLY seen this coming?

Enshittification must be stopped

happily continues using uBO and Firefox

If ads werent accompanied by malware, scams and right wing propaganda farms I might have considered not blocking them but as it is, no.

Or you just continue to block the adds.

Get fucked Google. Glory to the adblockers.

in Argentina, Australia, Austria, Chile, Germany, Poland, and Turkey.

The stupid thing is that they could have approached this in a much less dickish manner. Seriously. First, they are making money off us as it is with their demographics and the fact they are not utilizing this cash cow as before means they have gotten too greedy for their own good, or mismanaging funds which is a completely unrelated problem. Long ads, unskippable ads, expensive premium. This is the beginning of the end of something they used to offer as free, resting on their laurels as a monopoly, like the airline industry. When they are now practically forcing the cobra effect. Eventually, it will get so silly, it will go the way of the dod like Angelfire. AOL, and Geocities. Or, soon, Netflix.

I would have started it similar to Patreon, like, "by donating $1/mo, you can support artists like this," and incentivize the publishers with monetary gain and higher search results. Nobody is gonna miss $1 or $12/year. You multiply that by millions of viewers, that's millions of dollars on top of their demographics. Second, they could have had a 5 second bumper, similar to PBS, like "This and other find content is brought to you by Exxon and the Chubb group" or whatever. Five seconds. Front and back. Not enough to cause outrage. Skippable, but not so annoying, everyone skips.

mine went from 17 AUD to 33 AUD.

what a bunch of greedy assholes.

I was paying for it for years. But now I'll go out of my way to not pay for it. No doubt a lot of people will too.

Or how about I continue to use uBlock Origin and do neither.

They've already calculated, how high and in how many increments, they can rise their prices, while still coming out ahead. For every country specifically.

They've been also serving ads for YouTube premium as well recently

My guess it that it's to rope in people who don't use adblock

The less people who watch YouTube, the less valuable those ads are, and therefore the less valuable premium just be.

Have YouTube viewers been going up to justify ads being more valuable?

I was honestly thinking about buying premium, so I would support the creators. Welp, that's out of the window.

I think I will do neither of those things instead.

A few months ago I was thinking about getting YouTube premium. It's a platform I'm on everyday and have been using it for years. But they decided to block adblockers and increase prices, so they can go fuck themselves.

I will do everything within my power to take from them as much and give back as little as I can.

I still maintain that YT Premium is a great service if you're like a lot of people and YT is the majority of your online video consumption. From a price to use comparison standpoint, it's unbeaten. Netflix, Hulu, Crunchyroll, etc all pale in comparison.

But their insistence on bumping up prices, bundling YT Music and their war on ad blockers now is making it really hard to try to keep it. Hopefully now that Google is trying to cash in, we get some real competitors. Because right now when it comes to the sheer amount of content, visual quality and reliability of streaming nothing compares.