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I pay for YouTube Premium, even though ad blockers defang YouTube completely. I think consumers should definitely send such signals to companies, esp. since the

by badpun 4y ago

I pay for YouTube Premium, even though ad blockers defang YouTube completely. I think consumers should definitely send such signals to companies, esp. since the price is of YT premium is very reasonable. I feel much less inclined to subscribe to most movie streaming platforms, as their UI and overall experience is usually worse than PirateBay + VLC, or to digital print media, as they still show ads to subscribers. BTW what is kind of annoying is the "double ads" model in a lot of YT videos, where it's both YT showing you ad clips and then the youtuber editing in short commercials as well. You can pay YT premium to remove the first kind, but you can't do anything about the second kind... My dislike for ads does not come from general disregard for the idea of advertising in the first place, but from the fact that most actual ads are "small e evil" - i.e. disingenuous, manipulative, gaudy, appealing to human weaknesses etc. They make the world a worse place.

drdo 4y ago
The price might be very reasonable for someone making a US tech salary. But it's quite expensive for people in lower income countries, specially when you take into account that there are many services you could subscribe to, it adds up fast.
- badpun 4y ago
  I'm from Poland, and the price here is $5 per month. It's easily acceptable for anyone with an upper-middle class salary.
amadeuspagel 4y ago
> My dislike for ads does not come from general disregard for the idea of advertising in the first place, but from the fact that most actual ads are "small e evil" - i.e. disingenuous, manipulative, gaudy, appealing to human weaknesses etc. They make the world a worse place. I sadly have to agree with this. I think twitter did a great job of dealing with "small e evil" ads by allowing replies to ads - ads are just promoted tweets, that you can reply to, like other tweets. However, now twitter allows everyone to hide replies to their tweets. I still sometimes see ads on twitter with hostile replies, but that's probably only because they don't understand twitter as a channel, they treat it like any other channel where you don't have to worry about that. If they had someone ready to hide all critical replies that wouldn't happen. I think reddit had a similar model, with promoted posts?
Nextgrid 4y ago
FYI, SponsorBlock takes care of in-video advertisements.

by badpun 4y ago

drdo 4y ago

The price might be very reasonable for someone making a US tech salary. But it's quite expensive for people in lower income countries, specially when you take into account that there are many services you could subscribe to, it adds up fast.

badpun 4y ago
I'm from Poland, and the price here is $5 per month. It's easily acceptable for anyone with an upper-middle class salary.

amadeuspagel 4y ago

> My dislike for ads does not come from general disregard for the idea of advertising in the first place, but from the fact that most actual ads are "small e evil" - i.e. disingenuous, manipulative, gaudy, appealing to human weaknesses etc. They make the world a worse place. I sadly have to agree with this. I think twitter did a great job of dealing with "small e evil" ads by allowing replies to ads - ads are just promoted tweets, that you can reply to, like other tweets. However, now twitter allows everyone to hide replies to their tweets. I still sometimes see ads on twitter with hostile replies, but that's probably only because they don't understand twitter as a channel, they treat it like any other channel where you don't have to worry about that. If they had someone ready to hide all critical replies that wouldn't happen. I think reddit had a similar model, with promoted posts?

Nextgrid 4y ago

FYI, SponsorBlock takes care of in-video advertisements.