Youtube and others want their users to disable adblockers to increase their revenue from advertisements, but will forcing the users to so do be effective in the long-term? What unexpected consequences could occur? Why do people use adblockers in the first place? Why aren't more users buying Youtube Premium as a solution? Do adblock users still contribute value to websites? Can websites effectively enforce such policies? Are there ways to naturally encourage more users to disable their adblockers instead? Enjoy my informal and assorted ramblings as I learn basic video editing skills. For more examples of the Cobra Effect, here is a playlist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1lUrH4Sbgh8&list=PLBuns9Evn1w9XhnH7vVh_7C65wJbaBECK Be aware: The publisher of this series, Reason TV, hit the nail on the head with exploring this concept, but they do have a HEAVY libertarian bias, and I do not agree with everything that they publish. Be aware before you watch a series that could alter your recommendations. Supplemental links and sources will (slowly) be updated here. I should have done so in the first place, but future videos won't have this issue. Adblocker legality in Germany: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/11/adblock-plus-wins-its-6th-court-case-brought-by-der-spiegel/ FBI on Adblockers: https://www.ic3.gov/Media/Y2022/PSA221221?=8324278624 NSA, CIA, and others on adblockers: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/21068028-wyden-letter-to-omb-on-ad-blocking Interesting article from Australia not in video: https://www.computerworld.com/article/3455730/government-agencies-ordered-to-block-online-ads-flash.html Good info on adblock detection and GDPR compliance: https://iabeurope.eu/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/20160516-IABEU_Guidance_AdBlockerDetection.pdf Insight on undisclosed ads: https://www.vox.com/recode/23197348/tiktok-ad-sponcon-influencers Several cases where a website agreement was not enforceable (not the same as legal precedence): https://www.lexisnexis.com/community/casebrief/p/casebrief-specht-v-netscape-commc-ns-corp https://www.lexisnexis.com/community/casebrief/p/casebrief-nguyen-v-barnes-noble-inc https://www.lexisnexis.com/community/casebrief/p/casebrief-meyer-v-uber-techs-inc
  • Big PEnglish
    23•8 months ago

    I maintain that when YouTube goes away there won’t be a free alternative of the same scale that replaces it

    • DuckGuy
      14•8 months ago

      Pornhub could start Videohub tomorrow and shake things up if they really wanted to.

      Otherwise there’s Odysee (bad name, linked to crypto but good interface) and Peertube (federated but searches aren’t* so it will never catch on), but people aren’t too fond of those.

      * I know about Sepia Search. People shouldn’t have to use yet another website to find the videos they want on Peertube. It’s stupid.

      • Big PEnglish
        4•8 months ago

        Pornhub could do that, but there’s a reason they haven’t. Video delivery is insanely complex and expensive and consumer tolerance for advertising on those platforms is low. With no other way to sustain and income from it the only option will be loads of smaller sites or a paid site.

    • @abhibeckert@beehaw.org
      4•8 months ago

      YouTube isn’t “going away”. What could happen is a lot of people switch to something better.

      Just like a whole bunch of people have switched to Lemmy, which is better than Reddit. YouTube would still exist, at least for a while, just like Reddit still exists.

      • Big PEnglish
        6•8 months ago

        Everything goes away eventually. If YouTube stops being valuable to Google, it’s going away.

    • 👁️👄👁️English
      4•8 months ago

      Yeah, sites like peertube will never catch on besides any small techy circles. Any alternative will have to be centralized, that’s the only way they’ll get ad companies to their platform. Without ad companies, creators will have to revenue and no incentive to keep making videos on that platform.