YouTube disallowing adblockers, Reddit charging for API usage, Twitter blocking non-registered users. These events happen almost at the same time. Is this one of the effects of the tech bubble burst?
YouTube disallowing adblockers, Reddit charging for API usage, Twitter blocking non-registered users. These events happen almost at the same time. Is this one of the effects of the tech bubble burst?
You can also pay for YT premium and have no ads. Plus… what’s unsafe about YT ads? You’ll definitely get some fucked up ads on small websites that just plug in a stack of 3rd party ad networks but everything on YT is native first party ads they sold and implemented themselves. Viewing them is about as unsafe as viewing YT videos in the first place.
Yeah, I really enjoy the ads showing how I too can earn hundreds of dollars a day at home doing _____-
Those ads are shit. All ads are shit. But unsafe means it’s installing Russian malware on your computer, etc. I don’t think much of that is happening via YT.
Unsafe to me includes the naive (and dumb) losing all their money to a scammer. But I see your point.
I can definitely see your definition, too. But it departs a little from the ad blocker conversation. I don’t need an ad blocker so I’m not fooled by a pyramid scam. I do need one to keep malicious code away. The kind of person who falls for this sort of scam doesn’t know how to install an ad blocker, probably.
But then again, there’s the “I install the ad blocker on my mom’s computer to keep her from falling for scams” argument, which is definitely valid. Yeesh the last time I visited my elderly father he had all kinds of XXX push notifications popping up from calendar spam he’d fallen prey to. He was in a state of desperation, always afraid someone was going to see his phone do something embarrassing.