Changes on YouTube

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Varium

What you do on YouTube absolutely IS YouTube’s business. It doesn’t matter if you’re creating content or just watching videos.

There are millions and millions of videos on that platform that you get to watch for free. So how, by insisting that you sit through a few 5-6 second ads, are they dictating what you do? Is there some obscure law that’s forcing you to be on YouTube?

Fuxxake.

Boru

All I want to do is simply avoid a minor inconvenience, YouTube is not affected by me avoiding advertisements. However, I AM affected by having to watch them, even an occasional 5-6 second inconvenience is still an inconvenience, especially when it happens so often. Keep in mind, I watch YouTube a lot, there's a lot of great content on the website I enjoy watching, so I like to avoid even just the small things when I can, so I'd rather take the 15 seconds to download an ad-blocker and avoid these.  I should have a right to use a third-party source in order to avoid these, but YouTube restricting the use of these restricts a freedom to use software as I please, even if you want to argue that YouTube isn't technically "software".

But you don’t have to watch the ads, anymore than you have to read the print ads in a magazine.

You have the ‘right’ to use an ad blocker on a site that prohibits ad blockers? Who says so? 

You seem to have trouble grasping the idea that a privately held company isn’t the place to insist on your ‘rights’. For example, Atheist Forums has some restrictions on what you can and cannot post. This in no way infringes on your freedom of speech. Same-same with YouTube - your ‘rights’ don’t apply.

Boru