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YouTube tests server-side ads to make your coveted blocker obsolete (www.yahoo.com)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/technology

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YouTube has been spotted testing server-side ads, which could pose a problem to ad blockers.

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[–] tabular 13 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Does YouTube have competition? Your line of inquiry doesn't mean much if the content is only on YouTube.

[–] Wogi 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I'm not sure what point you think you're making.

YouTube doesn't want you visiting if they can't either put ads in front of you or get you to subscribe to premium. I appreciate wanting to access YouTube without ads, but from where they're sitting, if they scare you off with server side ads all the better.

[–] tabular 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Simply put: why care about their point of view? Google does not have your best interests in mind, often the opposite. There's no where else to get almost all of the content, why do without or waste time with ads in this short life.

[–] Wogi 8 points 5 months ago

YouTube could fall off the face of the earth and I would probably see my quality of life improve slightly.

I don't give a shit about Google. Perspective here is important when you threaten to leave the platform all together, as if they would care. If you're one of the users they gain no ad revenue or subscription revenue from, they're probably happy to see you go.

Could they be doing more to try to turn Adblock users in to paid subscribers? Sure. I'm not here to defend their methods. I'm just saying that if you're not paying, and you can't be served ads, they really don't care if you continue to use the service or not.