• YouTube is intensifying efforts to combat adblockers, including blocking video playback and warning users of potential account suspension.
  • Increased ads on YouTube have driven many users to adblockers, hurting both YouTube’s ad revenue and content creators reliant on ad-based income.
  • Despite these measures, many users are leaving YouTube or finding workarounds, leading creators to seek alternative revenue streams off-platform.
  • doodledup@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    29 days ago

    I’d be willing to pay for their service if it didn’t entail creating an account and letting me get tracked even further.

    I don’t know what the solution is, but ads isn’t, a Google account isn’t, but piracy isn’t either.