YouTube is Losing The War Against Adblockers

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• chakan2@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Imagine being on the YouTube ad team…that has to be the most depressing team in tech history. Your whole existence revolves around peddling ads before people can watch the ads they want.

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  • bobs_monkey@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Even better, you work for one of the wealthiest corporations in the world with virtually unlimited resources at your disposal, and you still get your asses handed to you by a handful of people with laptops.

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    • paraphrand@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      If they didn’t have to support the web, and various legacy platforms, the could lock it all down with drm more easily.

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  • Rentlar@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    At least you can tell your boss “I’m working on it!”, sit on your ass, and every 6 months add one more little UI or formula change which “finally stops adblockers” but is defeated within 3 days.

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    • Damage@feddit.it ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yeah I don’t believe they really put their hearts in it. If they truly wanted to force you into watching ads, they’d manage. Their team is just not that interested.

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  • limerod@reddthat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Your whole existence revolves around peddling ads before people can watch the ads they want.

    Ah, what. Who wants or likes to watch ads at all?

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    • pete_the_cat@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      A lot of creators have just turned into corporate shills. I stopped watching ETA Prime’s channel about tech reviews because it was becoming pretty clear that mostly everything he got was paid for by the company. Also, most creators are putting their own ads into their content.

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    • bruhbeans@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I’ve clicked in to see a movie trailer, which is basically an ad, and had to watch an ad before I could watch the ad

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    • conciselyverbose@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      People watch an ad for the privilege of watching a movie/show/game trailer all the time.

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  • GissaMittJobb@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’m sure they make enough money to not care. Being in the part of the company that brings in the dough is generally a pretty good position to be in as well.

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    • kayos@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It’s the only consumer product they haven’t canceled.

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  • suction@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    All corporate IT jobs are depressing, because working in a corporation isn’t something that a thinking person is equipped to do.

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  • timewarp@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    So tell the content creators you like that you don’t like YouTube. While YouTube Premium is the same price as like two coffees a month… Maybe your content creator will help you if you can’t afford it.

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    • claudiop@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Well, to begin with, both the watcher and the creator are clients of the platform. Both sides feel bound to it, even if both dislike it.

      Then, YouTube premium is literally 20 machine coffees a month in my first world country. 15 if they’re done by someone. You seem to be speaking “privileged minority”.

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  • vvv@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    and it’s potentially an existential threat.

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  • oce@jlai.lu ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Drying tears with dollar bills .gif

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• Gsus4@mander.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The other day I visited youtube without any add-ons and concluded I’d rather do anything else than use youtube under those conditions.

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  • kinsnik@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    legit, if youtube ever beats ublock origin, i’ll just stop watching youtube

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    • unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Its an all put assault on half your senses without an adblocker. Literal torture.

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    • webghost0101@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yt-dlp download script + text file with fav channel urls + jellyfin.

      No bullshit, saves bandwidth.

      Also look into invidious.

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    • stebo02@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      YouTube had beaten ublock origin for a while so I resolved to using invidious.

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  • pete_the_cat@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’ve had YouTube Premium since the days when it was called YouTube Red, so like a decade. I’ve grown used to not seeing any ads from Google and anytime I watch a video not using my account it’s torture.

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    • timewarp@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Same here. FreeTube for desktop and NewPipe are all you need though if you don’t want to pay and/or have access to music.

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    • CosmoNova@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      You‘re part of the problem then. It only got so shitty in the first place so they could trap people in the Premium subscription that will get increasingly more expensive and less useful.

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  • seaQueue@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Pro tip, LLMs do an excellent job summarizing YouTube videos now. I’ve never liked YouTube content, the incentives for creators are perverse and discourage conveying accurate information simply in favor of drawing out every video to maximize ad opportunities. About 95% of the content I might have been interested in could have been better conveyed in a 1-2 page blog post and read in 2 minutes instead of stretched out into a 15 minute video. Having a robot summarize that content is so much less irritating.

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    • Gsus4@mander.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      What do you use for that, fetch the transcript and just feed it to the LLM of your choice?

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  • CosmoNova@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    That‘s where Youtube Premium comes into play for many fools who don‘t really know about adblockers. Google‘s goal isn‘t to destroy the website, but to turn it into a much more profitable Netflix subscription based on user generated content. Sadly the enshittification of the biggest video platform will continue because enough people are willing to pay a lot for it. The site will not improve until there are mainstream alternatives that actually take revenue off Youtube.

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  • timewarp@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You could pay for YouTube Premium

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    • Gsus4@mander.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Is that what they are trying to do? Push crap ads and try to kill adblock to get them to pay for another subscription?

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    • BedSharkPal@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I’m just glad someone is thinking of the shareholders

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    • bulwark@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It’s only a matter of time until the premium users get ads. Just like Netflix, and cable TV before that. You will inevitably wind up paying to be advertised to.

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    • Damage@feddit.it ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Google makes enough money evading taxes already. Not gonna help them make more.

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    • narc0tic_bird@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I’d pay for YouTube Premium Lite if it didn’t state “Note: Ads will still show on music content and outside of videos.” and if that’d make them stop harvesting all my data.

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    • casmael@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Fuck that though

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  • QuarterSwede@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It’s so bad that I 1) refuse to pay for premium so I don’t enable the behavior and 2) ended up sideloading an alt YouTube app on iOS that just doesn’t display the ads. YouTube hasn’t been able to block that one yet as it spoofs as the original YouTube app. Totally unsanctioned and a pain in the ass to keep the certificate alive but worth it. YouTube is actually enjoyable again. All that because the ads interruptions were constant. If it was every 15 min or so I wouldn’t care, but every 5!? Get the hell out of here!

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  • NaoPb@eviltoast.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Same.

    I came across someone who uploaded a 90 minute video as an ad as well.

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    • towerful@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I remember watching some video, falling asleep for a few hours, then waking up to a livestream of an ad. One of those “skip after 5s” but it was a livestream, so it just kept playing. I couldn’t believe it!

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• gloriousspearfish@feddit.dk ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Once upon a time Google used few and non-intrusive ads. The ads were soo well-placed and relevant, that they almost seemed like a service to the user, rather than being forced upon you. Some of us even added exceptions for Google ads in our ad blockers, so we would not miss out.

  I miss those days.

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  • limerod@reddthat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    That was almost a decade ago or even before. I remember adockers recommending white listing search engines or recommending to disable non-instrusive ads to support websites.

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  • Rentlar@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    There are some ads that I’m fine with, but they have to be clearly an ad, and related to the content on the site, not based on my previous interactions, nor using tricks to disguise ads as part of the content.

    On documentation pages: sure just have a thing related to CS courses, on pirating and streaming sites advertise VPNs, on horny sites advertise horny stuff, and casinos and sports advertise gambling and sports betting. But DON’T make the ad look like a section in the documentation, like another download button, like another horny video on the site, like another casino game or segment of the sports analysis. If I want to explore the ad I will, stop trying to trick me else I will try to block and avoid you entirely! If I figure out that are you spending more effort trying to trick me the less interested I will be in the product you offer.

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    • ad_on_is@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      disguise ads

      While the intentions behind this are mostly evil nowadays, there’s also the design aspect to be considered.

      Imagine a nice, modern and minimal UI, and suddenly some flashy colorful element in the feed. it just hurts a designers feeling.

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  • satanmat@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I forgot where I heard this::: If there are fewer, more relevant ads, Google and YouTube should be able to make more money with fewer ads.

    The advertisers though want more ads even though they are less affective. As it forces the cost per ad down.

    It is totally backwards…. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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  • SomeGuy69@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Then google got greedy and ruined it’s own ad service. Imagine google would’ve stopped at this early point. A single, non flashing banner ad would generate as much as 5 multiple second video ads do now. But ads got used more and more inflationary, to the point where we are now.

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  • timewarp@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I don’t know of any day where I unblocked ads and felt good cause they were targeted directly at me

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  • MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Meanwhile these days every time I happen to use Youtube without an adblocker I get the same car insurance ads that I’ve gotten for the last 4 years.

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  • vext01@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The ads are so obnoxious and frequent. It just kills it for me.

    I know the reply I’m gonna get…

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  • GreatAlbatross@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I unblock ads on AVForums. And honestly, the ads are either really well targeted (because I’m probably going to buy that amplifier eventually), or random ebay stuff.

    If they started serving up the generic “reduce belly fat in 2 seconds with this simple trick” with some AI generated picture, I’d re-evaluate very quicly.

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  • SlopppyEngineer@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Then they killed the competition and there was nobody left to stop then doing to you with ads what the farmer does with geese to make foie gras.

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• Kongar@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’ll never understand the entitlement of these companies when it comes to ads. You send the content freely to my computer along with BS ads. It’s my computer. I’ll display what I want using programs I want.

  If you want me to pay for that content with $ or by watching ads - then put up a hard paywall and stop sending the content for free. You can’t get uppity and complain about ad blockers - it doesn’t make any sense…

  The real problem is your content sucks and nobody is willing to pay for it. And that’s your problem - not mine.

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  • Toribor@corndog.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I was paying for Google music until they took it away from me and told me it was Youtube Premium and then raised the price twice.

    Not exactly what I’d call a great value proposition.

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  • timewarp@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    “You’re content sucks… And I can’t stop watching it. I also got herpes by watching too much brain rot”

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  • Vlyn@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    That’s a weird way to look at it, obviously you’re watching the content.

    I’d rather see it like this:

    • Free tier with ads

    • Subscription without ads (and better quality)

    You are currently on the free tier. Yes, you can block ads (just like you can pirate movies), but that’s not the deal you were offered. I’m using an ad blocker myself, but I can understand the corporate side too.

    They absolutely could add a hard paywall, but why should they if there are plenty of users who want to watch for free by paying with ads?

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    • Kongar@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      No, I’m on the “you’re freely posting content to the internet - some of which I want to consume(videos), others not so much (ads)” plan. I never asked them to post anything, never entered a contract, etc.

      If they lock the content up, and stop freely posting it, then fine, I’ll stop consuming and go elsewhere. If I can’t live without the content, then I can decide to pay up. It’s their content - they can do whatever they want with it. But they can’t get mad at ad blockers if they put their stuff out there for free.

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    • conciselyverbose@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      They definitely couldn’t add a hard paywall. It would collapse the system overnight.

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    • JovialMicrobial@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      They make more money via ads than they ever will with a hard pay wall. The innumerable advertisers paying google/youtube will always pay more than individuals paying for a subscription for no ads.

      That’s why people who paid for no ads will eventually end up with ads again, despite paying. They don’t care if we pay or not. They want that sweet sweet ad revenue.

      The sad fact of the matter is that we live in an ad based economy. Advertising is more profitable than selling an actual product. Having a platform to sell infinite ad space is a money making machine, plus people making free content for them to lure in more people to watch said ads. It’s super fucked up on youtubes part.

      YouTube now exists as a billboard first, content second or third.

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    • JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nl ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      And in all tiers: make an additional profit by selling your information without your consent (it has been decided in many courts that burying subtext deeply in forced terms of service isn’t consent)

      We are already paying them by letting them harvest our data, ads or not.

      Then they double or triple dip with the scenarios you describe. I am still paying them by being on their site with an ad blocker as they harvest my data and sell it to the highest bidder. Not to mention quadruple dipping with using our info and content without consent to train AI to sell.

      They use the argument “your data/art/photos/videos are freely posted on the internet, so we can use them how we please”. If they publish content openly on the internet, then we are free to do with it as we please.

      They can’t use the argument but say “no no no, it doesn’t apply to US”

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• RangerJosie@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Good.

  Youtube is a wonderful thing. It’s a wealth of knowledge and resources unlike anything this world has ever seen.

  And it’s ran by one of the worst, most predatory corps on the planet.

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  • Zink@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Perfectly put. The product is great and I love how it democratizes “being on TV” and lets some people make a living doing their own thing.

    But I do not like where YouTube’s cut of that ad/sub money goes, and the enshittification pushed into it.

    Unfortunately, YouTube is not unique in that regard. It’s a sucky fact of life that just about any complex product you spend money on will benefit a collection of rich sociopaths skimming as much as possible from the incomes of the people actually making the thing. Gotta vote with your wallet where you can, and vote the traditional way for the systemic issues.

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  • corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    it’s ran it’s run

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    • BlackDragon@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      it’s ren

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    • RangerJosie@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Danke. Mein Reichleiter.

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• reksas@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  i consider unblockable ads to be direct attack on my psyche, trying to worm in and make me think in a way they want. I will never tolerate them and would rather see anything relying on them burn. My mind is my own and no one else has any business influencing me without my permission.

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  • sysop@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Agreed. It’s a form of cyber terrorism and needs to have an end put to it.

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  • tacosplease@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I agree with that… somewhat. Except they are providing a service.

    The content is not produced by YouTube, but it is made available by YouTube. There’s a cost to provide that service and value to the consumer for having videos available to watch.

    I doubt you want to pay for the service, so how is it supposed to work? What pays YouTube’s costs so we can all keep watching videos for months and years to come?

    I get that this comes across as someone simping for YouTube. I’m not trying to do that though. I’m just intrigued by this worldview and would like to understand if there is more to it or if you believe YouTube should not be compensated some other way.

    Is it a “Fuck you. I got mine.” mentality where people watching ads and paying premium cover the cost for you to use the service for free? Or is there some nuance I’ve missed?

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    • LarmyOfLone@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Nationalize youtube and turn it into a public utility financed by the UN. Create a kind of patreon system that distributes funds to creators similar to how it’s done for music collection agencies.

      There are always alternatives, but not until people demand an alternative to constant brainwashing. Right now it’s unthinkable because of people like you who insist that there cannot be an alternative and therefor the status quo mustn’t be endangered.

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    • sysop@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Not our problem. They can go the twitch.tv’ish way and add subscription models for people to subscribe and support their favorite content producers and Youtube can take a cut.

      Just because they can’t think of a profitable business model other than annoying and exploiting the internet’s userbase while deplatforming, demonetizing and having their own myriad of problems doesn’t mean that’s on us.

      Doesn’t mean you’re simping. You have a valid point, but when’s enough enough when they’re squeezing everything out of us for ad revenue and finding new ways to fuck with our psyche/psychological things like Facebook does with its highest paid employee(s) to rake in attention for cost-per-click and cost-per-view? We’re more than just ‘metrics’ and KPIS. We’re humans, we deserve joy. If youtube dies, there’s decentralized solutions out there that can become more mainstream. People can self-host and host their own content.

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• echodot@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Despite all of their machinations my strategy of simply ignoring literally everything they say and continuing doing the same old same old appears to be flummoxing them.

  I’ve literally not done anything and have never experienced any inconvenience. Are we sure they’re doing anything at all?

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• A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  “Should we moderate our ads and get rid of 2 hour long ads, disinformation, porn, and fake products?”

  “No, no. Thats to much effort. Lets spend hundreds of millions of dollars trying to force people to watch our 2 hour long ads, disinformation, porn and fake products. Thats clearly the way forward.”

  This decision process by Prager U proceeds into 30 minutes about how slavery was good for the black man and he should be grateful for it

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• SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’d rather not watch YouTube videos at all than videos with ads.

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• nobleshift@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  YouTube has been a dumpster fire for many many years now and it continues its slide down.

  Patreon would not exist had anyone over at YT had focus beyond the next two quarters.

  Sooner or later an actual real contender will be created, and you’ll see YT’s knee jerk reactions with a surprised Pikachu meme in full effect.

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• ArchRecord@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Good fucking riddance.

  The sooner they realize the enshittification isn’t working, and is only increasing the amount of people participating in the largest global consumer boycott ever, the sooner they’ll actually try to improve the platform, or die trying.

  YouTube has continuously made the experience worse, adding more and more ads to users not using ad blockers, to compensate for those using them. Guess what, genius? People block ads because they suck. Adding more won’t stop people from using ad blockers!

  And they have the audacity to try selling YouTube Premium for a whopping $14/mo (nowhere near the actual revenue generated from a user watching ads,) then don’t even provide any real benefit past ad blocking, after they deliberately killed YouTube Originals because it didn’t instantaneously bring in immense profits.

  And the content creators I personally know have shown me the amount of money they get from Premium users, and it’s sometimes less than the value of an ad-supported user, even though the Premium user generates more revenue than an ad-supported one.

  I would pay for YouTube Premium if it was a reasonable rate, and actually came with exclusive content, similar to Nebula, but it doesn’t.

  Instead, YouTube has continued to make the interface more and more bloated, slow, and inefficient, and increased the incentives for low-quality, mass-produced content, all while not paying creators enough to support themselves on YouTube’s own platform.

  YouTube can’t see itself as being the cause of its own issues, because it’s blinded by bad ad-driven fiscal policy that has only been a proven failure.

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• NutWrench@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  YouTube is also aggravating customers who use their official apps by increasing the frequency and length of the ads. In just 4-5 months, I’ve seen YouTube ad lengths on Roku go from 10-15 seconds to 30 seconds, to a minute.

  They’re trying to recoup lost ad revenue by pissing the one demographic that is most likely to sit in front of the TV the longest.

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• HappyTimeHarry@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Gotta love when the article saying adblock-blocking doesn’t work is itself preceded by a notice to disable your adblocker

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• doggle@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’ll stop using YouTube altogether before I disable my ad blocker. My time is simply more valuable than whatever video I’m watching.

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• SuperSpaceFan@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Who could have foreseen this? s/

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• bstix@feddit.dk ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The ads have reached a breaking point.

  If I can’t block them, I’m just not watching the YouTube. I’ll never pay.

  It used to be funny to link a relevant YouTube clip, but it’s not funny if you have to sit through half a minute of ads just to see something silly.

  It’s also not really a long time streaming service like TV channels or netflix etc., because the homemade content sucks in comparison to an actual documentary that I can also watch without ads on other services.

  It’s like Google completely misunderstood the point of the service they initially made. Also following a decade of users attempting to “monitize” their fucking crap, you can be sure that there’s nothing worth watching on YouTube that couldn’t have been better presented in a gif or in text.

  Then the player is also fucking up lately. Usually if I go there, I’ll check the written description while the ads play, just to see if the content is worth the wait, but nooo… you can’t even do that anymore, because the app will start reloading between the multiple ads and the screen scrolls around and minimizes the description and comments. They’re literally hiding any information on the clip except the title until you’ve watched the ads.

  It’s fucking garbage. Enshittified to death.

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• copd@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Wheres the data to back up this claim? That article is purely opinion

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• _sideffect@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Fuck em, they’re just greedy fucks that’ll blame us for everything.

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• Vespair@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  If they kept the ads to 10-15 seconds at the start of a video and didn’t interrupt my videos for them, I would never use an adblock on Youtube (i’ll even give them an allowance for one 10 second ad interruption for every hour in the case of super long videos). But for as long as they keep trying to squeeze every goddamn penny out of me that they can, I will fight back and do everything in my power to prevent them from being allowed even a single ad impression off me.

  I’m not unreasonable, but I refuse to accept unreasonable offers.

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• Static_Rocket@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I want the statistic on how many Google employees themselves use ad blockers now. It’s basically a necessity.

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• azl@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I pay for Nebula and try to watch as much as I can there. The content is more “pleasant department store” and less “Mexican public market”.

  I do watch YouTube regularly when channel-surfing, but if I ever see an ad (which happens only on mobile devices), I close it immediately and do something else. It’s not that I don’t think I should be able to watch everything for $0, but YouTube ads are so jarring, random, irrelevant and just make me sick. They literally ruin whatever I was watching and make me sad to exist.

  It can be exhausting to wade through the absolute meat market of click bait titles and thumbnails to find something that not only looks interesting but won’t abuse me with infomercial-form audio/visuals.

  YouTube enables and promotes the “content creators” who abuse human psychology to accumulate views, likes, subscriptions, etc. The best thing that could happen is they continue to be exposed as the drug dealer they are.

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• Alpha71@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Ads suck, but the type of ad is what is sucking the most. All I’m getting are ads for get rich quick schemes. You never see big name brands advertise on this site anymore.

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• 0x0@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  potential account suspension.

  What account?

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• ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’m starting to think our entire economy is built up ads.

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• dsilverz@thelemmy.club ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I was looking at the comment section from the article and the following make me laugh loudly, thinking on how bizarre is our current world:

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  So a platform that is blocking adblockers is delivering an ad piece advertising an adblocker. Ha! That’s an ad I’d love to watch 😂

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• Suavevillain@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Ads overall take up a good amount of time now. I would rather not use Youtube at all if I have to watch long ads.

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• eugenia@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The ads have become too long. Some of them are 40 seconds long, for a 3 minute video. That’s unacceptable. I have thought about it, and I think the best would have been an 8 second ad, unskippable. But never more than that. That, I could take. But multiple ads (even if they’re just 5 secs each but you have to be vigilant to press “skip”), or long ads, are just too much to accept.

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• EnderMB@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’m surprised that Vimeo hasn’t decided to take advantage of the enshittifcation of YouTube. They have been a social video platform for years, and are probably the best placed platform to come close to overtaking YouTube - should they choose to move away from the professional space and embrace the social aspects of video.

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• TechnologyChef@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The worst of all issues to me was any interruption working to help feed people or the destitute immediately has a 5 second skip, while all else has 59, 30, 20, 14 skip. There was no benefit for good externalities, just cost and profit. I was even ok with ads around 5 seconds and that they can even show up before watching a video. Adding the countdown was a nice touch too. It’s when it gets in the way of UI/UX, how you have to suffer through the same commercial over and over, interrupting a video at critical moments, and ending videos with an ad so that you don’t know if the video is ended that it gets awful to use. I would hope someone gets to making it 5 second ads that don’t take away from the experience.

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• Phegan@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Make your platform so bad in the interest of shareholders so no one wants to use your platform anymore. It’s a story as old as capitalism.

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