Still waiting for ISPs to change their model ever since “net neutrality” was abolished. With all of this shit with YouTube, Twitter, and Reddit coming down the pipe it really does feel there has been a global change in how corporations are squeezing their customers. I am guessing ISPs are waiting for the bulk of services to change their model before they sweep in with their greed. It’s coming.

[–] Brad@lemm.ee 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

If isp corpos start pulling shit like this, I'm out! I'm going to get a library membership & be done with the internet for good.

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[–] cccc@aussie.zone 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Peertube, Nebula, Patreon, etc. You don’t have to use YouTube.

[–] zxo@sopuli.xyz 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Plus, Newpipe and the likes have been doing pretty well at getting around YouTube ads so far, it's just the main YouTube website that has been more problematic.

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[–] Gentoo1337@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Man, what is happening to social media

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[–] ramennoodles@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 years ago

i've never seen this using librewolf + ublock + /etc/hosts

[–] Ragerist@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago (8 children)

I get that servers, bandwidth, manpower, utilities and buildings aren't free, and with more and more people using ad blocking, all that user data they have harvested isn't worth much anymore. So I think we are going to see an increase in subscription based services, and man do I hate it.

Because You just know it's going to increase and squeeze evey last dime from their users. Because it's never enough to have their expenses covered and earn some money.. They constantly need to earn more. Just look at Netflix, declining in contents, increasing restrictions and rising price.

The way that YouTube treats their users and content creators for that matter, I'll never enter a subscription from there. Removing features, blocking people with no way of appealing and letting scammers and spammers run rampant on their platform. Yeah, no thanks.

I used to love using YouTube for music, it was great at suggesting new and exciting music. But then it was split into a separate service and they nuked the algorithm. Now I can discover music by popularity or moods, and as someone whos into EDM, hardstyle, rock, metal and heavy metal.. that's a piss poor way to find new music.

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[–] prtm@lemm.ee 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (4 children)

To everyone who is saying they use adblock and haven't seen this yet: YouTube probably rolled this out to a smaller percentage of users first. It allows them to understand how this change impacts user behaviour, e.g. how many users comply and disable their adblocker, how many more users close YouTube than usual etc. Most tech companies do this type of analysis before releasing a high impact change to all users.

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