<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">On Wed, 8 Nov 2023 at 02:26, Bill <<a href="mailto:bstanle@wowway.com">bstanle@wowway.com</a>> wrote:</div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">On 11/7/23 04:12, Jeffrey Walton wrote:<br>> Louis Rossman just posted a video about the situation: YouTube's<br>
> adblock war is backfiring in the worst way possible,<br>
> <<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_GARcKCaUfI" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_GARcKCaUfI</a>>.<br>
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> Jeff<br>
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WS=> Isn't it ironic that the link it to a YouTube site!<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>So, why did Youtube start out as a site where videos are available ad-free and without charge, and then, once it achieves ubiquity, does it ransom their viewership with the choice of paying for continued viewing or pummelling them with ads and other "sponsorship messages"? Presumably, like Wikipedia, or Ubuntu, they don't really need advertising revenue to remain viable - the executive board that runs Youtube just wants a revenue funnel to pay for their largess.<br></div><div><br></div><div>I have recently disabled my ad-blocker, and I have found no great difference in experience thus far. I will still exercise the same narrow-eyed caution that drew me to an ad-blocker in the first place because I observe Youtube apparently has become just another contradiction in human nature - disappointing, confusing, frustrating - that I may yet turn my back to.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></div>