Firefox users are reporting an 'artificial' load time on YouTube videos. YouTube says it's part of a plan to make people who use adblockers "experience suboptimal viewing, regardless of the browser they are using."

Firefox users are reporting an ‘artificial’ load time on YouTube videos. YouTube says it’s part of a plan to make people who use adblockers “experience suboptimal viewing, regardless of the browser they are using.”

  • hark@lemmy.worldEnglish
    11·
    1 year ago

    The problem is that the paid option eventually gets ads anyway. See cable TV and soon Netflix.

    • Bazoogle@lemmy.worldEnglish
      7·
      1 year ago

      The problem is that the paid option eventually gets ads anyway.

      The problem is that YouTube hasn’t done something, but you think they will? Cable television has basically always had commercials. When it started, it was mostly just government broadcasts, but when it got popularly commercialized, adverts were introduced. Netflix has a paid option with ads, but they also still have an ad-free option, so that still doesn’t really substantiate your argument either.

      There is no real evidence to think they will add ads to their paid service. Of course it’s possible, but we don’t need to make up things Google might do in the future to call them evil. There’s plenty of things they’re currently doing.

        • Bazoogle@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          1 year ago

          Your comment assumes two things.

          1. Companies try to make more profit
          2. YouTube will make more profit by having ad contained paid tiers

          The fist point is a fact of life.

          The second one is simply not fact. It could be profitably, but it is far from guaranteed. They could just as easily make far more money by keeping the paid tier ad-free to avoid the loss of subscribers.