YouTube is waging a war against adblockers...and losing.
  • YouTube is intensifying efforts to combat adblockers, including blocking video playback and warning users of potential account suspension.
  • Increased ads on YouTube have driven many users to adblockers, hurting both YouTube’s ad revenue and content creators reliant on ad-based income.
  • Despite these measures, many users are leaving YouTube or finding workarounds, leading creators to seek alternative revenue streams off-platform.
  • KaynAEnglish
    3•4 months ago

    I hope one day we will find a method to finance websites operating costs without ads.

    Never. People don’t want to donate, people don’t want to pay a subscription fee, people don’t want to watch ads. People want everything on the internet for free.

    • @interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.mlEnglish
      3•4 months ago

      Give the people doing good stuff and social proofed a livable wage. Just print fucking money, don’t even tax, do I have to kill every economist with my bare hands ?

    • @Katana314@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2•4 months ago

      I’d argue part of this is true because of minimum wage and wealth disparity.

      When you have a healthy disposable income, it feels more reasonable to give out some donations for good online content. But that’s not the case for a lot of people now.

      It sucks because monetization models definitely influence the types of content we get. For instance, freemium video game models with cash shops are better for our current wealth gap, while a large set of consumers having extra cash through the year is much better for expensive, well-produced singleplayer games.