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okay Google, how about this. I already pay for premium, but Im too lazy to disable my adblocker for just your site, can we just call it a draw and move on?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I seriously don't understand why they're so aggressive about this.

I would consider maybe turning off my adblocker if they ran single ads and didn't make them so long, and actually did some curation on their ads so I didn't see a fake MrBeast scam ad or political ad every time. Yet they don't, so I will continue to find ways to block ads until I no longer can.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Companies pay YouTube for advertisements. Google's not just putting ads on videos for fun.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I don't think anyone disagrees with that, but YouTube today has a lot more ads, especially spammy ones, than YouTube 7 years ago did. This is an issue with them using a business model that doesn't scale very well.