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

• derpgon@programming.dev ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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  • JimSamtanko@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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    • scbasteve7@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨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 ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      How can you write “exactly” and then disagree?

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      • JimSamtanko@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Imagine if- now bear with me… seriously, Imagine if…. everyone stopped using YouTube.

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• BruceTwarzen@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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  • JimSamtanko@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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• Chadus_Maximus@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  False.

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  • JimSamtanko@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

    Gotcha.

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