Comment by jacquesm

Comment by jacquesm a day ago

An adblocker is a firewall for your brain. Google should have no say over what I consume and when and with for instance youtube being pretty much unavoidable their monopoly position is abused by forcing you to pay for it. Doubly so because of the bait-and-switch, I'm fine with platforms that start off being ad supported, I'm not fine with platforms that become huge on piracy that are free to use by everybody and not an ad in sight and then when bought out suddenly you end up as a captive lemon to be squeezed.

paulryanrogers 21 hours ago

Switching costs for consumers are pretty low. Though I'd agree that for producers, it is hard to compete anywhere else.

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jacquesm 20 hours ago

That's not really true. Youtube is the de-facto means through which a lot of companies and even governments communicate important information to the general public. It took the place of a lot of public broadcasting and documents supplied in paper form. This is highly annoying but hardly a choice on the part of the recipients.

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