At the end of the day, its pretty clear to me that Youtube is going to lose the war on adblocking. Either by hook or by crook those that want to use Adblockers are going to keep doing it no matter what.

And to be clear, I am not trying to equate Adblocking to video piracy. To me, the fact that I choose to go to the bathroom during a commercial of a tv show doesn’t constitute piracy and Adblocks just automate that process for me on Youtube. I would also never click on an ad purposefully, no matter what it is for.

With all that being said, I am a hopeless cause and I don’t think that anything will convince me to buy YouTube premium, but I also used to think that about MP3s.

My real question to anyone reading this is, as the devil’s advocate, what could YouTube do with ads or otherwise that would solve the “service problem” of “YouTube piracy”? And furthermore, is there any situaton where you would do anything other than block all Youtube Ads immdediately and with extreme prejudice?

This is an old article but this is Gabe Newell describing video game piracy as a service problem and why he believes that in case anyone is unfamiliar with it.

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    1 year ago

    They’ll lose…they already forgot why they beat out yahoo for search.

    There’s other platforms salivating at YouTube imploding.

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      1 year ago

      What I meant is that they have the technical capability to lock you out when using an adblocker. They already do in a few countries (you can watch 3 videos then get kicked out). It’s not a technical issue for YouTube.

      There’s not a single decent platform out there to replace YouTube. Even Vimeo is tiny and can barely keep up with demand.

      And why should someone sink a massive amount of money into infrastructure without a way to make profit? If you try to monetize it from the start you’ll never build a large enough userbase.

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        1 year ago

        They already do in a few countries (you can watch 3 videos then get kicked out)

        And people already figured out a way around this. They can only ever kick out adblock users temporarily, not permanently.

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          1 year ago

          They absolutely can, it’s not that difficult. The only thing they can’t really avoid is video sharing (like a download site where you can re-host the videos), besides throwing lawyers at them.

          But to block you watching on youtube.com? Easy as fuck.