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0 pointsmakeitdouble10mo ago0 comments

The salesman can cut the car you want from your buying options, or stick conditions on it that will make up for the difference with the other models.

That's what we're seeing with Youtube for instance: your choice is to pay Youtube's price for Premium (litteraly paying to not get bullied), sit through all the ads in the world, or get three strikes after playing the ad-blocking cat and mouse game for long enough.

Of course you're still free to go somewhere else, in a world where even public guides and presentations will often be pushed on youtube only, to alleviate for the bandwidth costs on standard web services.

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jen2010mo ago

> The salesman can cut the car you want from your buying options, or stick conditions on it that will make up for the difference with the other models.

My favourite approach to this is to write an email to all dealerships within the radius I’m willing to go, explaining what I want, then “publicly” make them bid for my business in a thread with their peers. I’ve had it work several times now.

fc417fc80210mo ago

> get three strikes after playing the ad-blocking cat and mouse game for long enough

I've never encountered this. What is it?

makeitdoubleOP10mo ago

https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/14129599?hl=en

Depending on when you look at it, it might be worked around or fully enforced again, it comes and go, but at least Youtube doesn't seem willing to give up that stance entirely.

bmicraft10mo ago

People using subpar ad blockers mostly, or more than one.

makeitdoubleOP10mo ago

To note, what u-block is doing to workaround this is far from the trival "just block the ad" behavior, and I expect it to break again (perhaps within weeks ?)

Then the waltz will go on as usual, until the ads are straight baked into the video-feed with the server refusing to serve the rest of the content on a per-client base.

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jen2010mo ago

> The salesman can cut the car you want from your buying options, or stick conditions on it that will make up for the difference with the other models.

fc417fc80210mo ago

> get three strikes after playing the ad-blocking cat and mouse game for long enough

I've never encountered this. What is it?

makeitdoubleOP10mo ago

https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/14129599?hl=en

Depending on when you look at it, it might be worked around or fully enforced again, it comes and go, but at least Youtube doesn't seem willing to give up that stance entirely.

bmicraft10mo ago

People using subpar ad blockers mostly, or more than one.

makeitdoubleOP10mo ago

To note, what u-block is doing to workaround this is far from the trival "just block the ad" behavior, and I expect it to break again (perhaps within weeks ?)

Then the waltz will go on as usual, until the ads are straight baked into the video-feed with the server refusing to serve the rest of the content on a per-client base.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse