It's bullshit. They suddenly changed their metrics and views dropped sharply. The amount of people not using adblockers is staggering. Most people I know had to be made aware they existed and there are many more who watch YouTube through their smartphone app where there are no adblockers.

If you wanted me specifically to watch your videos, you'd stop putting ads in every 2 minutes. It makes the videos unwatchable. But also, I'd only watch directly if the video weren't on YouTube. Fuck them and their monopoly. They can only sustain it because of Google Search (or what's left of that service).

Anti Commercial-AI license

This is literal abusive language. "Look what you made me do"

If you don't make your metrics reliant on spyware, they won't be affected by me blocking your spyware. But thats not a trick they teach at google university.

I can see this. I will only try refreshing a video a couple of times before giving up and moving on, if I can't watch it without ads. And lately, YouTube has been fighting with my adblocker so much, that I end up just turning it off altogether. Fuck ads.

And all I can think of is...

I'm doing my Part!

[Would you like to know more?]

Thought that does make it seem like we're part of some kind of movement, rather than just people sick of too many privacy invading ads.

I, and many others left using YouTube from the site once they banned adblockers. I used to watch an hour a day I'd guess.

I'm technical, so I bothered seeking out alternative clients that can bypass the ads (Freetube, Grayjay, etc), but i still watch less overall. And after speaking to less technical friends and family, they said that the unskippable ads just got too much. So they stopped using it except for essential vids like tutorials.

Too many ads = consumer go byebye now.

Ya fuckin' milked the cow dry, idiots.

Maybe dont put an ad every 5 minutes, that could lead people not to use adblocker. I wasn't an adblock user but seeing how the web is today its impossible to surf it without one

Google whines about problems it caused -_-

I can see where this is going. Next, ad blocking will be made even harder than it already is.

Adblockers are the only reason people can still tolerate watching content on the ad-riddled shitscape.

The internet is unusable without Adblockers. Youtube especially is a dumpster fire.

"Our product sucks because you're not giving us enough money" ok fam

Wtf. It's obviously crashed because of how absolutely unusable and disgusting youtube has become. I used to use youtube for 3 4 hours a day, but in the last year it may have gotten to an average of 20mins. Because you have to sign in to your google account to watch a video, many of videos cant be viewed with a vpn (which is how very large population of the world use youtube) and the overall quality of content has dropped massively, specially with 3/10 videos and shorts being AI slops.

Hah!