what youtube is doing is a slow easing of removing adblockers rather than an immediate one
what youtube is doing is a slow easing of removing adblockers rather than an immediate one
if they outright forced us to stop day one there'd be outrage, so they instead ease us in. first a popup, then a timed popup, slowly leading to their actual goal but without the risk of an initial outrage. i know this is an extreme comparison but we're like lambs to a slaughter
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There's outrage alright.
https://lemmy.world/post/6811788
https://lemmus.org/post/1138230
https://links.roobre.es/post/451
https://lemmy.world/post/6755067
https://kbin.melroy.org/m/til/t/52393
https://lemmy.world/post/6702422
https://lemmy.myserv.one/post/3116340
https://infosec.pub/post/3519906
https://lemmy.world/post/6697059
Well just look at the youtube sub on reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/youtube/comments/1792um0/let_that_sink_in_before_you_defend_a_billion/
99% of comments are youtube apologists
Hopefully most of those are bot comments & the mods are probably youtube employees
Looks like astroturfing to me
No offense, but you went to a subreddit that's likely to have people who enjoy google products and because of that are less likely to be critical even when they don't agree with the company. Have you looked at the r/technology subreddit posts about this issue? Or r/privacy or any of the other subreddits that might give a better view?
This is like going to the apple subreddit to find out if people are outraged bout the price of iPhones.
I love these types of posts and comments. I get about halfway in to realize I don't know shit about my fellow human beings and how they're navigating/viewing the world. This is one hot glittery pony show of a society circling the sewer drain.
not as large as qhat it wouldve been
Each one of those posts has hundreds or more comments and upvotes. Lemmy is still relatively small. I'm positive this is all over Reddit but I'm not gonna go check. The outrage is here and it is thriving where posts directly pointing to solutions are not (they get maybe ten to twenty upvotes and a handful of comments each). There have been multiple articles in the news cycle about it.
It was similar with the Netflix price hike and the Netflix anti-password sharing going public. Remains to be seen whether that outrage will actually amount to anything.
It won't amount to much if there's no viable alternative.
Moving to piped, invidious, freetube etc is what most with big enough outrage are doing (including me) but let's face it: that's just kicking the can a bit further down the road. Can't "FOSS" YouTube, what they're rendering usable again still is fully owned by Google and they'll look in to deploying techniques to put an end to that Foss frontending too, eventually.