youtube getting more agressive blocking users after 3 videos

tiita@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.world – 1025 points –

youtube getting more aggressive.. i've got firefox and ublock but this shit is still coming up

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Do you think running YouTube is free?

Either the advertisers pay for it, or you do. That's the deal.

My metadata does more than enough to pay for my usage.

Metadata is only valuable for ads though, right?

That's a good question.

There's actually more value in metadata than just for advertising, such as scientific and general market research. And even just talking about ads, it's still useful for both targeted and non-targeted ads and is not limited to the YouTube advertising space.

Do you think my data and internet connection is free? Either I give some money, and hope that youtube doesn't insert ads in the premium version of youtube or I give up my data and download obnoxious and potentially harmful ads.

Do you think targeted advertising and creating detailed user profiles for that is the only way to run ads?