Can’t say I’ve seen them.
Those YouTube ads everyone hates made $10.4 billion in just three months
Submitted 1 year ago by ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net to technology@lemmy.world
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finitebanjo@lemmy.world 1 year ago
disconnectikacio@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I dont see ads a since 2 years, for FREE. Android github.com/polymorphicshade/Tubular Android TV smarttubeapp.github.io For others Brave browser, or Firefox based with uBlock extension.
eugenevdebs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
“But we can’t pay our content creators! We’re a starving tech company! Niche stuff no one uses or has heard of! We needed to cut the money so they had to push scams!”
Showroom7561@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
… And has made video content for billions of people unbearable to watch or enjoy.
SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Firefox + Ublock Origin
glitchdx@lemmy.world 1 year ago
also works on android
Captainautism@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
Yep, this works! No ads.
GiddyGap@lemm.ee 1 year ago
What if you only use the apps?
Statick@programming.dev 1 year ago
Lookup Grayjay
Bahnd@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Use a third party app like New Pipe, if your on a fruit phone… you unfortunatly cant side load apps, I dont have an answer…
Glytch@lemmy.world 1 year ago
RVX, a fork of ReVanced, works well on Android. You’ll have to side load it yourself, but it’s got very good ad blocking and sponsor block if you don’t want to hear shilling during a video.
No idea for iPhone.
Auli@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
Youtube has ads? Since when.
Entertainmeonly@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 year ago
What rock have you been hiding under?
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 year ago
The ones labeled “NewPipe” and “SponsorBlock”
Dkarma@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Duck player bro
interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 1 year ago
I think he means native sponsored segment when you’re the first person to watch with sponsor blocks. But that’s mostly only videos realeased under 5 minutes ago.
drmoose@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Tbh YT premium is well worth the asking price though I wish it subsidized the free experience as that’s much more important for the platform.
weststadtgesicht@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year ago
Only on Lemmy you get downvoted for saying you pay for a service you like…
tracer_ca@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
Nope. I was well into negative on Reddit for the same.
interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 1 year ago
The problem is yt premium is not able to sustain google’s platform. Only google’s synergic monopolies make youtube possible and alternative financially unviable. Youtube, very literally, must die. As long as youtube exists it will maintain critical mass and kill everything else judt by existing. To fund youtube is to reinfotce this entrenchment. Both paying or watching ads and arguably just watching it, empowers google momooly position and its capture of the zeitgeist.
DPEWGF@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
There are tools that let you do what YT Premium provides for free unless you’re hooked on the music.
drmoose@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I know all the tools but I’d rather support Youtube which has ben an incredible service for me and I think it’s a net good for the society so it should remain sustainable.
Darkhoof@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Musify exists.
Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Sadly I haven’t found a tool that works on smart TVs, so I just pay for it
qevlarr@lemmy.world 1 year ago
YouTube ReVanced all the way
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I’ve been getting NewPiped down, myself.
But it’s nice to see alternatives floating.
diemartin@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
PipePipe worked for me when stock NewPipe didn’t. YMMV
No_Ones_Slick_Like_Gaston@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Do you think a GrayJay will stand o a NewPipe for this?
cley_faye@lemmy.world 1 year ago
And since they made so much while people are effectively using adblocker, there’s no need to fight them back, right?
Right?
ours@lemmy.world 1 year ago
It’s not about making money, it’s about making all the money. Stock holders will pressure to fire the guy that does that.
TomAwsm@lemmy.world 1 year ago
It’s not about making money, it’s about making all the money. It’s probably also about sending a message.
yournamehere@lemm.ee 1 year ago
havent seen them. are they any different? i am sure it is the same scam google does with Ads. only boomers see it, but are not the target group and the advertisers are just wasting money.
instead of using piped/smarttube i advise to not use US based services at all.I mean fuck you for supporting the ultragreedy.
Sho@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Stop. Using. Youtube.
demizerone@lemmy.world 1 year ago
And replace it with what?
Teknikal@eviltoast.org 1 year ago
You have a point it’s a monopoly but most YouTube videos I watch now the creators are always suggesting viewing on patreon because of all the YouTube copyright stuff.
I’ve noticed quite a few have vanished from YouTube so maybe there’s some signs YouTube is starting to get to annoying for creators.
CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
At least use an adblocker
Dil@is.hardlywork.ing 1 year ago
I use an alternative frontend for actually watching stuff, just google and find one with a public instance, no ads, can do pip on your phone for free
Sho@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Freetube, and what I use, Newpipe. There are better experiences out there. All one needs to do is search for them. Happy hunting.
Iheartcheese@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Deez nutz
Mr_Dr_Oink@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Pornhub?
ayyy@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Butt stuff
Senal@programming.dev 1 year ago
Literally any other form of entertainment.
Though the statement was to stop using it, not replace it.
ClinicalTourism@lemmy.world 1 year ago
For watching YT videos: NewPipe or Tubular for phone app. FreeTube on Pc. Invidious in browser.
Just a few examples, there is loads more alternatives.
Including different platforms all together. Too much to choose from.
TORFdot0@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I pay for a YouTube premium family plan. It’s probably a rip off but my kids enjoy content on YouTube more than any other platform but YouTube is not safe for children with ads enabled (and YouTube kids is a joke)
Soggy cereal made a video about how YouTube ads are unsafe a few weeks ago and that was exactly my experience before I started paying for yt premium, look that up if you are curious
Showroom7561@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
I’ll just share with you my experience:
I was also paying for a YouTube Premium family plan, but still got ads. What made me cancel was the fact that they’re still using trackers, so they were making money off me three times (subscription, ads, and selling my data)!
Coupled with the fact that “content creators” don’t really make content for the love of making it. It’s all created “for the algorithm”, especially the “watch to the end”, clickbait titles and thumbnails, “like and subscribe” begging, “only 15% of you are subscribers”, sponsored content disguised as education, etc… Videos today are nothing like they were 15 years ago, because it became solely about making money.
Google is one of the pioneers of the enshittification movement!
alphabethunter@lemmy.world 1 year ago
There’s literally porn ads on yt. Recently an acquaintance of mine got one of those “Look what she said when she saw the size of his dick. You can have a bigger dick if you just buy our product”, with plenty of suggestive imagery. And scam ads. My mother got scammed because of a youtube ad pretending to sell products in the name of a famous brand of supermarkets in my region.
x00z@lemmy.world 1 year ago
It’s not just ads on Youtube. It’s also all the sponsor crap and filler content to get to 10 minute videos.
I use it with an adblocker and sponsorblock but it’s still shit.
aeternum@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 year ago
Why ten mins? Do they only paid if they make it ten mins or longer?
Imprudent3449@lemm.ee 1 year ago
For sure. YouTube creators shilling for honey while Honey stole their affiliation money shows how little time they spend vetting their sponsors. The stuff they peddle is usually a few ticks away from scam, pretty much always overpriced. The day sponsorblock stops working, is the day I stop paying for YouTube premium and using youtube. It’s a pity, because there is a lot of good content on there.
RedditRefugee69@lemmynsfw.com 1 year ago
Tinfoil hat time:
YouTube allows/endorses/pushes ads not suitable for kids because they know parents, of all people, have no time to curate their kids’ ad experience and will just fork over the cash.
victorz@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Can confirm. As soon as I turn off personalized ads, I get nothing but “find hot ladies in your area” and “play this hentai game” ads across all Google products. It’s ridiculous.
mctoasterson@reddthat.com 1 year ago
I think your theory is plausible. On the YT smart TV app, the ads seem to be increasingly about unpleasant things like dick pills, period pads, and constipation treatments. I think they literally serve up unsavory ad content as a way of punishing you into shelling out for a subscription. Jokes on them, I just switched to SmartTube.
Modern_medicine_isnt@lemmy.world 1 year ago
And youtube. Kids sucks so much because they don’t really want anyone to use it… Sadly though, they don’t have to plan to do these things. They just don’t invest in making them kid safe.
cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 year ago
what ads? taps ublock and firefox android
KyuubiNoKitsune@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 year ago
I can’t cope with the shitty translate on Firefox mobile, I live in a non English country and it’s driving me insane
Darkhoof@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Just get another translate extension.
Resonosity@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
I use the Firefox extension Immersive Translate exactly for this reason. Hasn’t failed me yet.
overload@sopuli.xyz 1 year ago
Revanced, unlock origin solved the ads issues on android and on the browser.
Anyone have a (free) solution for Google tv?
aeternum@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 year ago
SmartTube Beta
brezel@piefed.social 1 year ago
Vpn to albania.
Rhoeri@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I say this every time the topic comes up, and I’m always downvoted for it but here goes again:
YouTube is going to do this suit because YouTube CAN do this shit. It’s their company. They can enshitify it as much as they’d like. And they WILL enshitify it as much as they like as long as people continue to use it.
How long have they been in existence now? 18-19 years? And with every year they gets worse and worse, while growing bigger and bigger. Why do you think that is?
Could it be because they know that although everyone will bitch about them, complain about them, and write scathing tech articles about them- people will still gobble their shit up regardless.
Don’t like what YouTube is doing? Maybe think about not using it. Because as long as you’re participating- either by creating content or viewing it- you are a big part of the reason they’re getting away with doing this shit.
Downvote away.
Auli@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
People well not pay for anything. I mean you can get YouTube premium without ads. But the vast majority don’t want it.
WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
does it count as viewing if every time I just download the videos with yt-dlp, and watch in a good media player?
Vinstaal0@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Youtube started when hosting video’s was way easier. The files where smaller, the bandwidth of most people wasn’t that great either. Storage was more expensive though.
These days everybody wants 4K footage and everybody was 100-1000+ mbps internet and we have 4K screens so we can also watch it.
The competitors who host it are either paid up front or porn sites. Because there is no real way to start up a competitor to YouTube. I decided to accept that and I have RSSfeeds of all the creators I like to watch so I bypass the algorithm
nova_ad_vitum@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
They get away with it because they don’t have serious competition and the reason for that is that allowing anyone to upload videos for free, to be viewed by anyone else for free, is by itself not a viable business model.
superminerJG@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Let’s just say, unless YouTube crosses people’s bottom lines and there’s an alternative being actively advertised, people won’t move.
Otherwise, they push that bottom line further.
shotgun_crab@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I’m very surprised you got downvoted for saying that
Hiro8811@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Ads? What ads?
meowmeowbeanz@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Google’s ad-pocalypse is a self-licking ice cream cone. Bragging about $10.4 billion squeezed from advertisers while users rage-install adblockers? Masterclass in delusion. The “diminishing returns” of shoving 15 unskippable ads into a 3-minute tutorial is peak platform decay.
Creators churning out AI slop just to feed the algorithm? Pathetic. But why innovate when you can monetize desperation? The ad bubble’s bursting—soon we’ll all laugh at brands paying billions for bots and ad-blind zombies.
Keep stacking those unblockable trackers, Sundar. We’ll just keep finding new ways to mute your digital serfdom.
pyre@lemmy.world 1 year ago
not gonna comment on your statements but you emphasize too many things.
shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip 1 year ago
Those poor suckers. I don’t think I’ve seen an advertisement on YouTube in something like five years.
potustheplant@feddit.nl 1 year ago
If you see 0 ads and don’t pay anyone, I’m not sure how the service could be sustainable. I’m also against ads but only if you’re actually paying. That’s why I do pay for a yt family plan but also use adblock+sponsorblock.
gamer@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Fuck yeah.
For anyone out of the loop, look into Freetube and Grayjay. There are other apps that do the same thing too, but those are good to start with.
pls@lemmy.plaureano.nohost.me 1 year ago
I have no issue in paying creators with my YouTube Premium subscription. What annoys me is seeing creators feed the algorithm with “regular posts” or create filler videos for sponsors when they have nothing to say.
That and seeing explainer videos from someone who learned something five minutes before recording… the number of copycats and regurgitating the same news content is depressing.
The same goes for the epidemic of faceless AI videos narrating generic content… horrible. The “don’t recommend channel” must be worn off by now, from me alone. :-)
Fantastic exceptions from talented creators make it worth it, so I am happy.
cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year ago
I use Firefox with uBlock Origin and SponsorBlock. I never see any ads on youtube.
PlantJam@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Reminder that Firefox on mobile also has ublock origin and other add ons that improve the experience.
TeamAssimilation@infosec.pub 1 year ago
Ads didn’t make 10 billion, Google charged advertisers 10 billion. IMO ads have gone so pervasive they’ve hit a point of diminishing returns. They’re everywhere, we hate them, and those 10 billion spent would have to bring many more billions in sales to be an attractive service.
I can’t wait for the ad bubble to burst, as advertisers understand they’re just giving money away to megaadvertisers for paltry conversions.
Clinicallydepressedpoochie@lemmy.world 1 year ago
There was a true golden age where the technology for ads was so shitty and the companies didn’t even know what they were worth somewhere between 2006-2010.
Auli@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
Companies wouldn’t buy the ads if they didn’t work.
Wappen@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Competition. It’s all about competition between companies. In highly saturated markets ads serve to build brand recognition and are seen as long term investment to gain market share. Good example is TikTok. The social media market is very much saturated and competition very high, so TikTok’s strategy was to buy every ad they could to create brand recognition, which in turn helped gaining market share.
So I don’t think the ad business is a bubble at all, it’s just that the usefulness and function depends on the market a company competes within.
Vinstaal0@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Sadly I still see that ads benefit a lot of my clients. The more advertising they do the more revenue they get, but this is only for small to medium sized companies. However if every company in the world spends 100k on adverts on platforms like Google we would easily surpass the 10b.
Dropshippers are the best example of this. No ads means no revenue.
Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Ads?
maxalmonte14@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Fortunately LibreTube and NewPipe exist 👍
firadin@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Still need a good strategy for blocking ads on my TV. Mostly watching YouTube through a Chromecast so I can control it from my phone
Arghblarg@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
On desktop: uBlock origin (Vivaldi or Firefox). On mobile: Newpipe and AdAway (VPN mode, or rooted phone).
iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
I’d love to know their cost of storing all the YT videos and serving them.
einlander@lemmy.world 1 year ago
And yet they aggressively demonitize channels.
Kalysta@lemm.ee 1 year ago
What ads? My adblocker still works.