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Ads on youtube are horrible, luckily you can still use unlock to bypass them

411111111111111 6y ago
You can also just pay YouTube for unlimited ad-less videos (side from the sponsorship pitches that are so frequent nowadays) It's honestly a little worrying that people have the nerve to complain about ads if they can remove them entirely just by paying the fee. What makes you think you deserve free unlimited service?
- vlovich123 6y ago
  This is always a frequent refrain but then you have to be actively ignoring the lessons of previous technological changes. TV was ad free. Then ads started appearing. Then you paid for cable to get rid of ads. Then ads started appearing there too. Advertising is a corrosive industry. I personally find it unlikely that YouTube Red will inevitably have the same fate. Hell, Netflix has experimented with ways to try to do that and eventually some experiment will succeed (they already do that to some extent by hiding it in their recommendation engine). [1] https://thenextweb.com/google/2017/09/18/google-youtube-red-ads/ https://thenextweb.com/google/2017/09/18/google-youtube-red-...
  - rrrrrrrrrrrryan 6y ago
    > I personally find it unlikely that YouTube Red will inevitably have the same fate. Do you mean "won't"? Unrelated: I believe Netflix already makes some money from product placements in its "Netflix original" content.
    - vlovich123 6y ago
      Double negatives are hard :). https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1994/07/25/how-i-met-my-wife https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1994/07/25/how-i-met-my-w...
- jowsie 6y ago
  > (side from the sponsorship pitches that are so frequent nowadays) SponsorBlock does a great job of removing those, too.
  - CraneWorm 6y ago
    A remarkable achievement, and it's crowdsourced too!
- phkahler 6y ago
  >> What makes you think you deserve free unlimited service? What makes YouTube think they deserve free unlimited content, and unlimited ad revenue?
  - 411111111111111 6y ago
    They don't, which is why a lot of the money for YouTube premium goes to the content creators videos you liked and watched. The only way that they don't get paid is if the premium user clicks dislike. https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/6306276?hl=en https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/6306276?hl=en
- wcarss 6y ago
  When YouTube added little banner ads, I didn't really mind. They had to make the service profitable, after all! When YouTube first allowed creators to monetize their videos using ads, to support themselves, and youtube would pay them and also take a cut? I certainly didn't mind. It promoted good content, and they've got to make money after all! When YouTube decided I could no longer turn off my phone's screen when I played a video, I began to mind. I thought it was a bug at first, but then I found out it was intentional. I guess they have to make sure we're looking when they play ads. Gotta make money after all. When YouTube made their terms worse for creators multiple times, I read on with sadness, but it didn't really affect me, and they've gotta see revenue growth, or something. When YouTube started actively screwing creators out of monetization for bizarre and arcane reasons, but would then still show ads on the de-monetized videos, and collect the full take? I felt miffed. They don't need the money that bad -- if it's demonetized, it shouldn't have ads. But what could we do? Stop watching? When YouTube started aggressively nagging me to sign up for their paid service to "unlock" those old "features" like no ads and playing videos when my screen is off, I was pissed off. They really gotta make money like this? I still see these nags daily. When YouTube recently decided that on all videos, even ones the creators have chosen specifically not to monetize (e.g. because they're intended as educational content), YouTube will force 10-15 seconds of unskippable ads for every 10 minutes of video, and then take all of that profit? Fuck 'em. They don't need the money. YouTube is rotten to the core. One of the richest corporations on the planet has forced these intrusive, shitty ads upon literally billions of people, degrading their hugely profitable service with no real alternatives, and you feel the need to defend YouTube here? You're "worried people have the nerve to complain"? You tell us, "you can all just pay up!" What a sickening disgrace! Collaborators are tragically easy to find. To quote Pratchett, "It was as if even the most intelligent person had this little blank spot in their heads where someone had written: "Kings. What a good idea." Whoever had created humanity had left in a major design flaw. It was its tendency to bend at the knees."
  - jfim 6y ago
    That's how one gets year over year ad revenue growth from an audience size that grows at a smaller rate. Expect the trend to continue. They haven't started to monetize the Google assistant yet, at least from the consumer side. But even that mindset is starting to change, if you want to control your own thermostat using their APIs outside of the apps, well, it's a non refundable $5 charge [0]. [0] https://developers.google.com/nest/device-access/project https://developers.google.com/nest/device-access/project
- jonplackett 6y ago
  I didn't say I had something against ads. I don't expect something for nothing. But the ads are getting really out of hand recently. You used to get an ad at the start of a video, and not even every video. Now it's 2 before every video - and multiple ad breaks along the way. This is just a terrible experience and makes me hate using youtube.

You can also just pay YouTube for unlimited ad-less videos (side from the sponsorship pitches that are so frequent nowadays) It's honestly a little worrying that people have the nerve to complain about ads if they can remove them entirely just by paying the fee. What makes you think you deserve free unlimited service?

vlovich123 6y ago
This is always a frequent refrain but then you have to be actively ignoring the lessons of previous technological changes. TV was ad free. Then ads started appearing. Then you paid for cable to get rid of ads. Then ads started appearing there too. Advertising is a corrosive industry. I personally find it unlikely that YouTube Red will inevitably have the same fate. Hell, Netflix has experimented with ways to try to do that and eventually some experiment will succeed (they already do that to some extent by hiding it in their recommendation engine). [1] https://thenextweb.com/google/2017/09/18/google-youtube-red-ads/ https://thenextweb.com/google/2017/09/18/google-youtube-red-...
- rrrrrrrrrrrryan 6y ago
  > I personally find it unlikely that YouTube Red will inevitably have the same fate. Do you mean "won't"? Unrelated: I believe Netflix already makes some money from product placements in its "Netflix original" content.
  - vlovich123 6y ago
    Double negatives are hard :). https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1994/07/25/how-i-met-my-wife https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1994/07/25/how-i-met-my-w...
jowsie 6y ago
> (side from the sponsorship pitches that are so frequent nowadays) SponsorBlock does a great job of removing those, too.
- CraneWorm 6y ago
  A remarkable achievement, and it's crowdsourced too!
phkahler 6y ago
>> What makes you think you deserve free unlimited service? What makes YouTube think they deserve free unlimited content, and unlimited ad revenue?
- 411111111111111 6y ago
  They don't, which is why a lot of the money for YouTube premium goes to the content creators videos you liked and watched. The only way that they don't get paid is if the premium user clicks dislike. https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/6306276?hl=en https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/6306276?hl=en
wcarss 6y ago
When YouTube added little banner ads, I didn't really mind. They had to make the service profitable, after all! When YouTube first allowed creators to monetize their videos using ads, to support themselves, and youtube would pay them and also take a cut? I certainly didn't mind. It promoted good content, and they've got to make money after all! When YouTube decided I could no longer turn off my phone's screen when I played a video, I began to mind. I thought it was a bug at first, but then I found out it was intentional. I guess they have to make sure we're looking when they play ads. Gotta make money after all. When YouTube made their terms worse for creators multiple times, I read on with sadness, but it didn't really affect me, and they've gotta see revenue growth, or something. When YouTube started actively screwing creators out of monetization for bizarre and arcane reasons, but would then still show ads on the de-monetized videos, and collect the full take? I felt miffed. They don't need the money that bad -- if it's demonetized, it shouldn't have ads. But what could we do? Stop watching? When YouTube started aggressively nagging me to sign up for their paid service to "unlock" those old "features" like no ads and playing videos when my screen is off, I was pissed off. They really gotta make money like this? I still see these nags daily. When YouTube recently decided that on all videos, even ones the creators have chosen specifically not to monetize (e.g. because they're intended as educational content), YouTube will force 10-15 seconds of unskippable ads for every 10 minutes of video, and then take all of that profit? Fuck 'em. They don't need the money. YouTube is rotten to the core. One of the richest corporations on the planet has forced these intrusive, shitty ads upon literally billions of people, degrading their hugely profitable service with no real alternatives, and you feel the need to defend YouTube here? You're "worried people have the nerve to complain"? You tell us, "you can all just pay up!" What a sickening disgrace! Collaborators are tragically easy to find. To quote Pratchett, "It was as if even the most intelligent person had this little blank spot in their heads where someone had written: "Kings. What a good idea." Whoever had created humanity had left in a major design flaw. It was its tendency to bend at the knees."
- jfim 6y ago
  That's how one gets year over year ad revenue growth from an audience size that grows at a smaller rate. Expect the trend to continue. They haven't started to monetize the Google assistant yet, at least from the consumer side. But even that mindset is starting to change, if you want to control your own thermostat using their APIs outside of the apps, well, it's a non refundable $5 charge [0]. [0] https://developers.google.com/nest/device-access/project https://developers.google.com/nest/device-access/project
jonplackett 6y ago
I didn't say I had something against ads. I don't expect something for nothing. But the ads are getting really out of hand recently. You used to get an ad at the start of a video, and not even every video. Now it's 2 before every video - and multiple ad breaks along the way. This is just a terrible experience and makes me hate using youtube.