Comment on YouTube is dedicated to making itself worse; destroys SponsorBlock with ad injection changes

• JimSamtanko@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  You could just not use YouTube at all.

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  • derpgon@programming.dev ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Why? Fuck the corpo, not the people who make the content.

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    • JimSamtanko@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Exactly… fuck the corpo, don’t use YouTube.

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      • scbasteve7@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        If you don’t use YouTube, you’re also screwing over the content creators you enjoy. You can cause harm to a company in many ways. Stop using a site prevents them from making money off of you. Preventing them from actively making money off of you while you’re still using the site actively takes money away from them. It is double sided sword because you’re also not actively supporting that content creator. However, if they don’t have another platform to post on, you can instead buy merch, donate, or simply help the algorithm boost their content by watching their content.

        I don’t disagree with you. YouTube should no longer be a viable business. Something else should step in and rival them. But since that doesn’t look like it’s going to happen, I’ll be happy running adblocks, and letting them not recoup their server and operation costs from me.

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      • derpgon@programming.dev ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        How can you write “exactly” and then disagree?

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  • BruceTwarzen@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’d rather fuck with them and make them waste resources.

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    • JimSamtanko@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I would all but guarantee they’re wasting little to no resources on you.

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  • Chadus_Maximus@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    False.

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    • JimSamtanko@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      So… you’ll complain about, but use it anyway thereby supporting what they’re doing.

      Gotcha.

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