So anyways, I installed Firefox with ublock origin and Sponsorblock
"I"m playing both sides so that I come out on top?"
Back in the day most media was designed around commercial interruptions. Watch some old cartoons on Netflix, they often have "fade to black" moments after which the last 10 seconds are repeated. Nowadays commercials are algorithmically inserted into content to maximize viewership, meaning that more often then not a YouTube commercial will play right before the most important bit of the video.
Still better than old school linear tv, where you paid to watch things being constantly interrupted by paid commercials.
Speak only for yourself. In the meantime, I use uBlock.
Inb4 they lock youtube behind DRMs with hardware authentication.
(Some apps don't run on third-party OS like Graphene OS anymore, that could be the future of technology)
If they make it too hard I'll stop watching. I have no intention of watching their ads (ads are psychological abuse), and they charge way-yyy too much for premium.
If they make it too hard I’ll stop watching.
Exactly. There is practically an infinite supply of entertainment with a wide variety these days. There are too many alternatives to care about any single source.
Knowing what people are like, that won't stop adblockers for long
I'd pay YouTube if it were $5/month instead of $15.
In fact, a couple of my favorite YouTube creators are on nebula.tv and I pay them $30/year.
Nebula rules I always make a point to check there first. Great for treadmill shows and stuff
It's one or the other. If you pay YouTube for Premium and don't get any ads, advertisers don't pay for your ad impression.
wish there was an option for "pay the platform the few cents the ads make" instead of me paying the platform a wild and ever increasing amount of money
Tbh I feel like they should take a ~30% cut from the creator tips feature and add that to a "ad balance" which would remove ads and subtract the few cents they would've got from the ad. That way YouTube gets paid, the consumer doesn't get ads, and the creator gets encouraged to make good content.
Finally a non-braindead comment.
This can't seriously be surprising for anybody, youtube with its on-demand unlimited video storage and streaming has to be one of the biggest money sinks on the internet.
And this is why peertube will never actually take off outside of a Utopian future of unlimited energy and a future where everything is perfectly distributed
Who is going to pay the hosting costs? Who is going to pay the bandwidth costs? Let's say magic happens and the users donate enough for that. Who is going to pay the creators who that is their main source of income?
Now what will happen when people demand 4k content everywhere, and then 8k after that? That quadruples the cost of the bandwidth and hosting costs.
I absolutely hate hate hate subscription models and hate ads. There has to be a subscription model for any video hosting platform, and YouTube doesn't split up into exclusivity deals like shitty steaming services to screw over the consumer for profit. So at least there is that.
Decentralized systems work extremely well for text and even audio-based services. Video is a whole other beast, especially long form video at high resolutions.
If a subscription makes sense anywhere it is for something like YouTube, totally agreed. According to YouTube stats 4.3 Petabytes of new data get uploaded every single day to the platform. That's absolutely mindboggling.
This kind of pisses me off whenever people complain about YouTube pushing ads or charging money. It's absolutely insane how much storage and bandwidth the amount of video hosted and uploaded every second requires. How could it possibly free?!
Bundled with YouTube Music it's even extremely good value.
Spotify premium costs USD15.36 in my country.
YouTube premium, including YouTube music USD19.58.
That's USD4.23 for no ads where I watch the most videos. Absolute no brainer in my opinion.
*and we block YouTube ads to not show ads
Ever heard of Elsevier? You pay them for the privilege of posting your article, and then they charge other people for the privilege of accessing it.
And they don't pay the people actually proofreading/peer reviewing the stuff
I scrape videos off of YouTube using Pinchflat which dumps them into a folder, predownloaded for me, which I then have connected to a Jellyfin server that splits each channel up as an individual series, ads and bumpers stripped entirely, and it automatically downloads videos as they release.
Paying sounded too involved. Make a google account, etc...
Who has the time?
Bro I think you just created a reason for me to build my next server. Thank you for this!
not the first time capitalism asks you for money to solve problems capitalism created...
As a highly experienced software developer, I'm available for not writing software at a reduced rate of $45/hr, and I can handle unlimited overtime.
As a highly experienced murderer, I’m available for not murdering you and skinning your family alive in front of you for a low cost of just $40/hr.
You're gonna murder and skin me in front of myself? I'm intrigued and have 40$ to spare
YouTube keeps uBlock functioning to keep me going to their website.
The thing with advertising is that the advertisers make more money in product sales from people who watched ads than they spend telling YT to push their ads. That's just how the advertising business works.
In other words, either the viewers pay youtube not to show ads, or the viewers pay the advertisers to pay youtube (in a roundabout way).
So it's just you paying in both cases, unless you use an adblocker :)
PSA: firefox + ublock origin blocks youtube ads even on mobile (on android at least)
Youtube sends me data, I simply do not accept it. Simple as. No higher argument is needed
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