Youtube being able to tell an adblocker is being used breaks privacy laws.
I'm pretty positive Youtube does this sort of testing on certain selections of accounts.
Then go ahead and ban my account for "sexual exploitation of a minor" again.
And then take another 3 years to overturn it, AGAIN.
Get fucked, Youtube.
I definitely see this with Youtube comments where I will constantly be getting shadowbanned for no reason, posting completely benign, normal conversation while others will get away with way worse or even the exact same thing I was trying to post.This is so frustrating, literally the most dystopian thing about social media. I get that ToS needs to exist to keep things generally civil, but YouTube has all but said "you get to have a voice when we say you do" with or without good reason.
upgrade to premium for an ad free experienceBeen using Premium for ages.
what nowYep. They gave very little context, but from the initial email I think it was from a video that I added to a watchlist(or favorited) with a satirical album cover. But of course, the actual video didn't get taken down. My account just got axed and this was before YouTube had even a minimal workforce, so even big time content creators(Like Pat McAfee and Maximilian) had serious issues actually communicating with them when their channels had issues.
Almost certainly. When they had that period of really trying to crack down a couple years ago, it was only ever a subset of people that had the site stop working for them until they waited for an update. It's not uncommon for social media in general to only push new features/changes to a subset of users at first so they can get feedback by comparing the experimental group to the control before rolling them out fully, and in the case of anti-adblock measures, that also delays the adblockers' responses because they've got fewer opportunities to collect data on what's being blocked.
It's also common for companies to completely ignore the vast majority of people making complaints too.
You fucking what
Then go ahead and ban my account for "sexual exploitation of a minor" again.
And then take another 3 years to overturn it, AGAIN.
always find it funny when people will pay for a subscription to Spotify without a second thought but are disgusted by the thought of subscribing to YouTube premium. Especially when YouTube premium gives you ad-free music AND video.
Spotify hosts a much smaller (in file size) library of content, and having Spotify premium doesn't provide more value to artists per view.
YouTube does a much more demanding and expensive task of hosting vast amounts of video, which subscription fees (and ad revenue) make possible. And your YouTube premium views directly provide more income to content creators that you watch.
Paying for Spotify and then using an ad blocker on YouTube should be a red flag about someone's judgement.
YouTube has a history of ignoring any and all complaints unless one of their larger content providers complains about something on Twitter and it catches traction.
When someone with a million plus followers has a Tweet complaining about YouTube go viral, the damage control team jumps in pretty fast to "fix" the problem. But if you don't have that weight behind you, they generally don't give a shit about your complaints, even if it's about something that they themselves blatantly fucked up.
YouTube has a history of ignoring any and all complaints unless one of their larger content providers complains about something on Twitter and it catches traction.
When someone with a million plus followers has a Tweet complaining about YouTube go viral, the damage control team jumps in pretty fast to "fix" the problem. But if you don't have that weight behind you, they generally don't give a shit about your complaints, even if it's about something that they themselves blatantly fucked up.
always find it funny when people will pay for a subscription to Spotify without a second thought but are disgusted by the thought of subscribing to YouTube premium.
And your YouTube premium views directly provide more income to content creators that you watch.
Yep. They gave very little context, but from the initial email I think it was from a video that I added to a watchlist(or favorited) with a satirical album cover. But of course, the actual video didn't get taken down. My account just got axed and this was before YouTube had even a minimal workforce, so even big time content creators(Like Pat McAfee and Maximilian) had serious issues actually communicating with them when their channels had issues.
YouTube has a history of ignoring any and all complaints unless one of their larger content providers complains about something on Twitter and it catches traction.
Though Spotify is also very guilty of the "hey aren't you annoyed that we interrupt you with so many ads? Pay us to make it stop!" protection racket style of marketing their premium service. I don't really have an issue with services offering meaningful perks in exchange for a premium fee, or even paywalling basic functionality that essentially frames the free experience as a free trial. I do take issue with blatantly creating problems to which they then sell the solution.
But it's never felt like a platform that was marketed as free use.
That is definitely a factor. If Netflix had always been priced as it is now, had a library comparable to its current one, included ads in the lower tiers, and prohibited account sharing, I don't think anyone would have an issue with it. Because all of those things are marked downgrades from a previous state, though, people are unhappy that the service they used to enjoy has become less enjoyable. Similarly, Youtube has downgraded from the service it once provided and is charging a premium fee to remove those downgrades, and that just feels icky.
Really, though, that's where the tech industry is these days. They've run out of improvements to sell, but those numbers gotta keep going up forever, so they have to invent problems and sell solutions to them. Capitalism, ho!
There's nobody out there that wouldn't support account sharing no matter the context.
YouTube has a history of ignoring any and all complaints unless one of their larger content providers complains about something on Twitter and it catches traction.This is actually true for nearly all companies.
When someone with a million plus followers has a Tweet complaining about YouTube go viral, the damage control team jumps in pretty fast to "fix" the problem. But if you don't have that weight behind you, they generally don't give a shit about your complaints, even if it's about something that they themselves blatantly fucked up.
Honestly, YouTube Premium is worth it.
The problem is that it's pretty much a straight up protection racket.And they will give you ads anyways for special events.
"If you pay us money, we will protect you from the problem we ourselves deliberately created."
Honestly, YouTube Premium is worth it.If you have an Android phone, PipePipe lets you reap those benefits for free.
If you have an Android phone, PipePipe lets you reap those benefits for free.
You can even download videos as video or audio files, right onto your device.
just use revanced like a normal person
normal people watch YouTube on their smart tv now.
people watching via a computer are only overrepresented here because the website is self-selecting nerdier than average ppl.
normal people watch YouTube on their smart tv now.
people watching via a computer are only overrepresented here because the website is self-selecting nerdier than average ppl.
Been using Premium for ages.hey man you don't gotta do it for me
Obviously being able to share accounts is good for consumers. The point is that if we'd never been able to do so, people would be much more okay with that than they are in the current situation, where we used to be able to and it's been taken away. That's just the nature of people: taking away something that somebody is enjoying - especially for no good reason - makes them more upset than they would be if they'd never had it in the first place.
But that's not how most people share accounts.
(they had one ad that said something to the effect of "Love is sharing a Netflix password"),
upgrade to premium for an ad free experienceIs this a troll, or do you genuinely go around on message boards acting as a mouthpiece for predatory corporations?
normal people watch YouTube on their smart tv now.Source? I'd have thought most people watch on mobile.