YouTube's campaign against ad blockers continues with a new timer now appearing within the familiar warning popup
  • moitoi@feddit.deEnglish
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    1 year ago

    This is one of these problem with multiple unsolvable issues:

    • people are used to ad block and won’t change
    • the price is too high for part of the population (-> ad block for part of them)
    • $1/month, $10/year would attract new paid account but not that much
    • people can’t afford/don’t want a subscription everything
    • users don’t see any value in it
    • a fraction of the paid will go ad block with the price increase
    • people will circumvent the ad block block
    • capitalism
    • …
    • Pechente@feddit.deEnglish
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      1 year ago

      They already solved it. Premium was way cheaper before they started bundling it with Music which is just utter garbage. I’d pay like 5€ / month for YouTube Premium without Music IF the experience was actually good and they didn’t shove shorts in my face everywhere like that non-dismissable panel that breaks up my subscriptions now.