This statement is extremely stupid. YouTube is a free service to you. It is dammed expensive to run, and they pay for it by showing you ads. It's the exact same thing as ltelevision channels that show ads. it's paid for by ads. You are not freeing the internet by blocking ads, you're driving the content providers to have no money. I hate ads as much as anyone but unless you want to pay $20 a month for YouTube, then stop whining

[–] Magiwarriorx@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

More devices, content, and people are online than ever before, and the user experience has never been worse. It is one of the most significant advancements in human history, and its not-so-slowly going to shit because of corporate greed.

It's Google's right to serve ads however they want, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't call for a competitor that doesn't treat users like garbage.

[–] BobbyBandwidth@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Don’t come at me with a toxic Reddit attitude. The issue is not about paying for a service. For example, people are willing to donate to the fediverse to keep servers running. The problem is that the current state of the internet is dominated by paywalls, tracking and ads. Even if I paid for YouTube they’d still track me, feed me garbage from an algorithm and try to sell things to me (relentlessly).

[–] collegefurtrader@discuss.tchncs.de -1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

When hulu put unskippable ads on my premium subscription, I switched to pirating.

[–] Phillaholic@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Are you talking about pre-roll ads for other shows on the platform? That was the norm before Netflix. HBO has done it for most of their existence.

[–] collegefurtrader@discuss.tchncs.de -1 points 2 years ago

whatever it was, it became unskippable.