"I have a hard time believing that YouTube would be unable to keep business afloat without the revenue generated by behavioral-tracking advertisements,” EFF’s Daly Barnett told @theregister. “It’s a lazy and deliberately malicious move on their part." https://www.theregister.com/2024/04/16/youtube_ad_blocking/
@eff@theregister Google sez: "We want to emphasize that our terms don’t allow third-party apps to turn off ads because that prevents the creator from being rewarded for viewership..."
That is pure hog wash. I've got some videos on YT. Google plasters ads in front of and on top of 'em. And I get nada, zip, nothing.
@karlauerbach@eff@theregister How many views do they get? You KNOW there are minimums for monetization. Irrespective of that, I pay for Premium and have for many years, and YouTube Red before that. Because that's the right thing to do if you don't want to watch the ads.
It's not in the advertiser's interest either. If someone wants to block ads, but is stopped from doing so by Google's fuckery, there's a darned near 0% chance that they'll click the ad or buy the advertiser's product. It's more likely that they'll be annoyed and mentally associate that annoyance with the advertiser's brand. Showing ads to this cohort is a net negative for advertisers. The only party who benefits is Google, collecting money for showing ads that have no hope of leading to a sale, and annoying some users enough to drive them to pay them to make the ads stop.
@eff: Recently the amount of Ads on platforms like YouTube has been driving me mad. I realise it cost money to run these platforms, but I wish they'd get better targeting. No!! "I Really am NOT interested in currency trading Forex!!!"
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