i am neither going to disable my adblocker nor am i going to pay for youtube premium.
i am going to stop using youtube.
trying to pay people by sending them ad revenue is not an acceptable business model and i will not support it.
another issue: i have html5 autoplay blocked because i don't want videos to automatically play when i load a page. it's distracting and annoying, especially if i'm listening to something in the background, as i often am. that is also now apparently disabled. if your youtube page is going to insist on automatically playing videos when i load your page, i won't go to your youtube site at all. rather, youtube will get skipped in the search results because i'll know that youtube has that annoying behaviour that i don't like and can't turn off; i'll go to something like bandcamp when i search for a page because it doesn't autoplay, instead.
you'll note that this is what actually killed myspace, the annoying scripts that you couldn't fucking turn off.
youtube needs to understand that it cannot force people to watch the ads if they don't want to watch them and it's just harming itself by trying to. i'm not going to actually watch the ads. i'll hit the mute button, i'll open up another tab, i'll wait with my mouse over the skip button, etc. then, you'll ask me about the ad i supposedly just watched and i won't even remember what it was because i was intentionally not paying attention. that's no exaggeration; i try very hard to not watch the ads and i really don't remember them for that reason.
really, it's the people paying to have their ads forced on people that are wasting their money. (1) if people don't want to watch the ad, forcing them to watch it is negative advertising but (2) mostly, people are like me, and actually do everything they can to not watch the ads, even if youtube tries to force it. companies are buying false promises from youtube and wasting their money.
further, some new adblocking software will appear shortly and the adblockers will continue to evolve so long as youtube tries to block them. this is just a failed a business model - grasp it, adjust to it and move on.
as a musician and artist, i do not have ads on any of my art, i never will and i am even morally opposed to participating in the business model underlying it. it is morally wrong to force somebody to watch an ad before they can listen to a song, as the individual does not explicitly consent to being brainwashed by corporate propaganda; they click play intending to listen to art, not intending to be brainwashed by capitalist garbage. i use youtube as a way to advertise my bandcamp site, not as a means of revenue generation. youtube has never sent me a check. the business model i support is the bandcamp model. however, i would prefer a guaranteed income model to a market transaction model; artists should not have to sell a product in order to survive, they should have a right to exist. government subsidies are the preferred solution.
i actually even have images blocked on my chromebook.
you simply can't force people to do things if they don't want to. youtube is going to lose this fight. it should give up before it does.
actually, it seems like there's some bad news with bandcap:
https://pitchfork.com/thepitch/is-bandcamp-as-we-know-it-over/
it's easy to guess that the next step is that they're going to license everything, and i don't consent to that.
i'm going to have to take everything off bandcamp. unfortunately.
there's a link to inri records at the side. that will take over bandcamp's function.
to be clear: what songtradr obviously wants to do is take bandcamp artists and put them on sites like spotify, for a fee. this will bleed the bandcamp model. i do not want my music on spotify. i'm consequently removing it from bandcamp.