YouTube disallowing adblockers, Reddit charging for API usage, Twitter blocking non-registered users. These events happen almost at the same time. Is this one of the effects of the tech bubble burst?
YouTube disallowing adblockers, Reddit charging for API usage, Twitter blocking non-registered users. These events happen almost at the same time. Is this one of the effects of the tech bubble burst?
Well, its not exactly YouTube trying to block adblocker, rather Google in trying to disable the use of adblockers on chromium based browsers, with the reason being YouTube revenue from ads.
However, they announced this in late 2022 and I am not sure weather or not it actually was implemented (Firefox user).
Here is a link to a news article I found talking about this.
This is not what this is about, YouTube will be implementing a three-strikes policy if you are using ad blockers: https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/29/23778879/youtube-videos-disabling-ad-blockers-detection
Ok, ad blockers may have to move to downloading and bit-bucketing ads to make it appear to Youtube’s servers that we have watched them. Worst case we may have to live with 30s pauses in videos.
The biggest problem is that average people are used to the tech big companies provide, and lazy so that they won’t move to overall better alternatives. This means the companies don’t care about consequences of their actions, because there is NONE. Looking at it from the company’s perspective, why not make more money from people that won’t leave the site anyways?
Well would you look at that. I was not aware of this, thanks for letting me know!