As opposed to the so un-entitled "customers have no right to negotiate use of their data".

ACCEPT THE EULA PLEB

These services have had years to set up privacy-preserving micropayment systems. Instead they want your PI and a monthly fee, all the while using network effects to create defacto monopolies.

Why are these big tech monopolists so entitled?

I am talking about free and open source products like ublock origin and not YouTube itself. Entitilement towards youtube can be debated, entitlement toward uBlock origin is just bad behaviour.

Such is my reading comprehension on Saturday lol

I hateto bring it to you but we are on sunday :)

Today is Sunday

If we're going through the hassle of micropayments and other unnecessary beggar stuff, when why rely on some big company to take a cut of the money? Just setup a bank account and host your videos on a simple web hoster. If you're not willing to learn how to use wordpress then don't complain about youtube putting ads.

Because you're an active user and thus help make the site "popular". We're seeing on Twitter what happens when management starts ignoring this basic logic of the internet.

Twitter pissed off their advertisers by pulling back content moderation. That is their biggest problem in terms of cash flow.

They're currently forcing logged-in users to share screenshots if they want to share something with non-logged-in friends and preserve any context whatsoever (you can no longer see replies, or what a xit was in response to, if you're not logged in—all you can see is a single xit). Search also doesn't work anymore if you're not logged in, and if you visit a user's page, their xits are ordered by some even-more-nonsensical-than-usual algo that puts years-old xits near the top. The site's basically totally unusable if you don't have an account.

This may be making some metric (account signups, presumably?) go up, but sure seems risky to me.

On Twitter and Reddit, the users most affected were also the people providing most value to the platform (tweets, reddit submissions, discussion, moderation). They're fairly symmetric platforms.

On YT, the people providing the value are the content creators. That is the same content creators who get a revenue share from ads and premium. They're the ones who benefit the most from blocking ad blockers. The people watching videos with ad blockers (and sponsor block)? They're not providing anything in exchange, to the platform or the creators.

I am not a lawyer either, but as a practical matter, it's not illegal unless a judge says so. reminder

This isn't even about the audience, it's about the writers' careers in media. Have to toe the line or you'll be unhireable.