I know the topic of whether adblock is piracy is debated, but I am guessing there are a lot of adblock users here and I was wondering if anyone has seen the youtube adblock warning message in the wild. I use ublock origin and still haven’t seen it once.
OK, let’s start from scratch then. The person who replied to my comment said it was abusive. “Abusive” is totally subjective, how can we know if this is abusive or not? You’re right, numbers might not reflect this but they do show if they think the content is worth watching the ads.
For me, it isn’t worth it so I almost never use YouTube, but I don’t think it is abusive. It’s a really high quality service with incredible engineering.
So there’s no point in talking in subjective terms, people will always disagree. Let’s just wait and see if people still want to use their platform after the change. If they do, that is their decision, they are free to make a choice. There are many video streaming platforms out there. Just not as high quality as YouTube. They also don’t have as much content because content creators want to receive ad money.