be me.

reading lemmy

see yet again that YouTube is blocking ads

see your gross mischaracterization in the comments that implies everyone is entitled in defense of a corporation that uses opaque terms of service, legal loopholes, brute force spending, their veritable monopoly on the browser and ad markets and absolute monopoly on search engines, and straight up lying to the public in order to vacuum up every last drop of our data as they worsen the service they give us without any way of paying for it or supporting it other than the aforementioned vacuuming

watch you ignore that they take said data and weaponize it against us and anyone who happens to be in front of our camera or within earshot of our mic and alter our searches in the background to favor certain brands and products as they drive us away from sites and resources we want via the enshittification of their proprietary search engine. Also see you fail to recognize the regulatory capture they've engaged in to insure no one can do to them what they've done to others for decades

read your copy-paste comment reiterating that YouTube is a business and not a charity while ignoring that there are dozens of other ways to make money and that Alphabet/Google already has more money than god and could maybe afford to back off a bit but won't ever do it because god forbid they make one cent less than humanly possible, all while ignoring that over 25% of americans now run an adblocker for maybe a good reason, constituting the largest consumer boycott in the world, which maybe should be addressed at a fundamental level but no that's dumb let's just keep making things worse and playing cat and mouse and blaming users for operating within the boundaries of the law just like google allegedly does

see the part of the comment that swings at strawmen instead of actually trying to have a real discussion or come up with any sane solution or any attempt to advance the conversation

realize some people lack any imagination and are willing to just accept things as they are because "that's the way it is" in defense of an international, multi-billion dollar company that sees them as nothing more than a product to sell and is always testing to see what the floor is when it comes to the quality they'll tolerate

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