• Pogbom@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I have an honest question and I feel like Lemmy is a good place to have a real discussion on this. To preface this, I use adblock too so I’m kinda calling myself a hypocrite with this question :P

    Why do we expect any free service not to have ads? If a paid service like Netflix introduced ads I’d be pissed, and same goes for cable TV these days. But why would something free like Youtube not have ads? How can we be bothered by ads on a service we’re getting for free?

    Someone help me reconcile this for my own well-being haha.

    • grue@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Why do we expect any free service not to have ads?

      Youtube has the right to serve ads along with the content, but it does not have the right to dictate what I can or can’t do with the data once it hits my machine. It has no more right to hijack my property to force them upon me than it does to strap me to a chair and force my eyes open, A Clockwork Orange style.

      If Youtube doesn’t like that arrangement, its recourse is to serve a 403: forbidden instead of the video data.

      There’s also a deeper discussion to be had whether corporations have any sort of right to exist in their current form in the first place, but I’ll leave that for another time.

      • CurlyMoustache@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        Is is like muting during a commercial break, or going out of the room to do something else. What happens in my home, is under my control. You want to stop me from doing that? Refuse to serve me content. I’m fine with that