YouTube is running an experiment asking some users to disable their ad blockers or pay for a premium subscription, or they will not be allowed to watch videos.
I disagree to a degree. They are a company and we shouldn’t expect to enjoy their service for free, but they have made the service worse and worse with their invasive ads and expensive pricing structure. Where I am, the premium is like €16 and the alternative is 30 second ads before I can change videos.
Yesterday I was playing GoW and looking at really short walkthroughs and kept getting new unskippable 20-30 second ads even if I clicked into the wrong vid and started a new one straight away.
They are also incredibly profitable as it is so every new addition is making customer experience worse solely for more profit not to mention recent changes in payouts to smaller creators and most frustrating of all, their weaponised copyright claims system which goes against fair usage.
I don’t think they get to operate at the level they do, with such a poorly trated user base and creator space and demand what they demand.
I disagree to a degree. They are a company and we shouldn’t expect to enjoy their service for free, but they have made the service worse and worse with their invasive ads and expensive pricing structure. Where I am, the premium is like €16 and the alternative is 30 second ads before I can change videos.
Yesterday I was playing GoW and looking at really short walkthroughs and kept getting new unskippable 20-30 second ads even if I clicked into the wrong vid and started a new one straight away.
They are also incredibly profitable as it is so every new addition is making customer experience worse solely for more profit not to mention recent changes in payouts to smaller creators and most frustrating of all, their weaponised copyright claims system which goes against fair usage.
I don’t think they get to operate at the level they do, with such a poorly trated user base and creator space and demand what they demand.