okay Google, how about this. I already pay for premium, but Im too lazy to disable my adblocker for just your site, can we just call it a draw and move on?

  • Bucket_of_Truth
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    21 year ago

    Companies pay YouTube for advertisements. Google’s not just putting ads on videos for fun.

    • Nyaa
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      I don’t think anyone disagrees with that, but YouTube today has a lot more ads, especially spammy ones, than YouTube 7 years ago did. This is an issue with them using a business model that doesn’t scale very well.

      • panoptic
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        21 year ago

        Interest rates were basically zero for a decade, then they spiked this year with every indication that they aren’t going back to zero anytime soon.

        This is radically shifting the approach for many tech companies.

        Not saying I like it, just saying it’s why rapid enshittification is happening