Google’s experimental Android WebView Media Integrity API could patch the YouTube Vanced loophole once and for all

Google could kill YouTube Vanced for good::The company is exploring an integrity API that could lock down WebViews with DRM

  • jol@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    412·
    1 year ago

    That’s not true. Do you think, say, coca cola cares if you click on ads? Not all ads are looking for clicks. Some just want to get impressions.

    • bstix@feddit.dkEnglish
      16·
      1 year ago

      Yes it is true. They don’t make an impression when I don’t see it.

      Call me old fashioned, but I have hands. I physically put my phone away because I do not want to watch the screen on my phone when the screen is showing an ad instead of showing what I wanted to see.

      Companies are paying Google to show me ads that I don’t see.

      Coca Cola’s brand recognition does not come from YouTube ads. It comes from signs in the real world, visual merchandising in stores and product placement in shows.

      • Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        8·
        1 year ago

        Absolutely. There are petrol pumps that play fucking ads. What do I do? Enter car. That’s horrifying to me.

        I haven’t had YouTube ads for a long time thanks to Firefox focus but if I did? I’d probably abandon the platform. Otherwise I’d just put my phone upside down for as long as the ad might be.

        You’re entirely correct. I refuse to ads. I wish billboards were illegal here. Ads are a fuck.

        • Kayn@dormi.zoneEnglish
          15·
          1 year ago

          Ads on the internet are a consequence of people not wanting to pay for internet services.

          • Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
            6·
            1 year ago

            Ads on the internet are fucking spyware, no thanks

            I’ll take my PiHole and ublock and wipr and never see them again thanks

          • Ænima@lemm.eeEnglish
            6·
            1 year ago

            This is absolutely not true as Steam and other niche streaming sites have proven. When you make it easier to buy what you’re selling, rather than doing everything in your power to nickel and dime consumers to pad your stock price, people are fine paying for those services and you don’t need ads.

            Historically speaking, your statement is false, and there are multiple examples to prove it.

            • Kayn@dormi.zoneEnglish
              04·
              1 year ago

              Then what’s difficult about paying for YouTube Premium?

              • sock@lemmy.worldEnglish
                51·
                1 year ago

                they literally raise the price every other week do you think that’s sustainable to keep paying for (which is saying yes please take more money each time you pay)

                • Kayn@dormi.zoneEnglish
                  23·
                  1 year ago

                  No, they do not “literally raise the price every other week”.

                  • sock@lemmy.worldEnglish
                    4·
                    1 year ago

                    sorry i hyperbolized

                    once a month

                    my parents use it and I get the emails.

    • CmdrShepard@lemmy.oneEnglish
      8·
      1 year ago

      This is only true for large, legacy companies like Coca Cola though. This doesn’t work for startups shilling shitty headphones, flashlights, VPNs, mobile games, etc because you’re unlikely to randomly come across their product when walking around the grocery store for example.