• @AbsoluteChicagoDog@lemm.eeEnglish
    9•2 months ago

    To be clear, blocking ads isn’t directly denying anyone money. YouTube decides how video creators are paid and they choose to not pay if ads are blocked. You can agree or disagree with that decision, but the user has no role in it.

    Personally I think it’s shitty that YouTube can just refuse to pay for the content people create for them.

      • @Unchanged3656@infosec.pubEnglish
        11•2 months ago

        I did not agree to anything. When I open the site they just start serving videos to me (even autoplay is activated by default). If they don’t want me to watch their videos without ads they should stop serving them to me (ie, put them behind a paywall)

      • @tabular@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4•2 months ago

        Ownership implies a device should be controlled by the user. I don’t just mean not playing adverts but how about not recording my voice (or other data) to send it to Google servers for them to keep and exploit? You’re free to believe in this implied agreement but I doubt that’s in your best interests.