Reports of buggy previews and inaccessible features for YouTube users with ad blockers enabled

YouTube is loading slower for users with ad blockers yet again::YouTube users have noticed annoying delays and some features disabled when using ad blockers.

  • Kogasa@programming.devEnglish
    11·
    10 months ago

    They had paid for it for years.

    Yes. With the intent of making a profit eventually. Or they wouldn’t have.

    They combat this with the price of add on devices, wall mounts, hdmi cables, etc.

    What is YouTube going to “combat” with if not advertising or subscriptions…?

    This is where my brain says fuck you. One billon means you’ve won. Stop being a greedy dick.

    One billion means nothing if you’re spending tens of billions per year to continue operating. I’m not suggesting the CEO of YouTube deserves to get richer. I’m saying the company has operational expenses and investments that require some level of profitability, and “free for everyone forever” is literally just not a viable option.

    • SendMePhotos@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      10 months ago

      YouTube is only one section of an entire corporation. Compare Walmart’s entertainment department to the rest of the store. The company does profit.

      Free forever was the whole premise of YouTube. That’s why it was named You Tube. Users create content and host it. Ads were fine, the ads now are not fine.

      The operational expenses were always covered by ads. Ads is Googles whole business model. They were successful when they were less intrusive, why do they need to do things this way and break up the videos when they have grown an empire on what was previously done?

      • Kogasa@programming.devEnglish
        11·
        10 months ago

        YouTube is only one section of an entire corporation.

        It’s a corporation, not a charity. They don’t spend tens of billions per year out of good will.

        Ads were fine, the ads now are not fine.

        Ads were not making enough money to justify continued operation.

        They were successful when they were less intrusive, why do they need to do things this way and break up the videos when they have grown an empire on what was previously done?

        Because “what was previously done” is not sustainable.

    • elephantium@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      10 months ago

      Alphabet spent $70 billion on stock repurchases last year. Their server costs aren’t a problem.

      • Kogasa@programming.devEnglish
        11·
        10 months ago

        It’s not that they couldn’t burn billions of dollars for the betterment of society. It’s that obviously they won’t. If YouTube weren’t supposed to be profitable it wouldn’t exist.