youtube getting more aggressive… i’ve got firefox and ublock but this shit is still coming up

  • JGrffn@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    It’s a matter of who gets tired quicker at this point, YouTube, ublock maintainers, or users. We’re on the losing side, and alternative front ends sound like the “we’re cornered” solution. I imagine Google won’t take long to break them as well.

    • Pika@sh.itjust.works
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      1 year ago

      the engineers won’t get tired, they are paid not to. Not to say that people shouldn’t try to evade it. This is super predatory but understandable cause of its income model.

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        1 year ago

        The engineering managers will get tired of spending their budget on something that produces no return on investment. Google has no attention span for anything.

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          The engineering managers get directed by corporate executives to implement a feature like this. If the engineering manager resists or protests they won’t be meeting there kpi target. there are plenty of other people to fill the role.

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            A feature like this can get approval to be worked on, but what’s harder to defend is spending money on it every quarter when there won’t be any tangible benefit to point towards.

            Google will get bored and move on to the next shiny thing to juice revenues.

    • aceshigh@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      how much money do you think yt is losing to ubo, and how much does it cost for yt to keep updating the code? financially it may not be worth it.