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Wait until adblockers stop working, and see many people start seeing YouTube ads again. Will they agree to stay on Chrome?

• beebeepka 4y ago
  My only use for chromium is youtube. I only watch a handful of channels but things are getting ridiculous. Sometimes I get ads every minute. Every minute! Just the other day I got served 5 ads in a row after a simple fast forward. I gave up TV more than 20 years ago and this crap is way worse. What can I do without letting them in my actual browser? These people are crazy.
  • dmarcos 4y ago
    I highly recommend Youtube Premium. Also heard from creators that they get paid more from Premium views than from free accounts.
    • jon-wood 4y ago
      This, as much as people may moan, is the answer. Either that or go subscribe to Nebula or whatever not-YouTube platform your favourite YouTube channels are publishing to. Content production costs money, in some cases vast amounts of it, and while advertising is a terrible solution to that just not paying is an even worse one. If everyone blocks ads then nobody gets paid, and nothing gets produced.
      • smaudet 4y ago
        Its not just about moaning, it's about paying it forward. I'm not sure when people decided everything should be free - under a certain income sure we should be subsidized, paying for things is a way of voting for the way you want to see the world. If you don't pay you don't have a choice. "Not using" is not enough, because you still need to support what you do use.
    • mardifoufs 4y ago
      I pay for premium but still have to use vanced to avoid the sponsor segments that are in literally every video now. I totally understand why people wouldn't bother with premium until youtube offers a native sponsorblock-like alternative
  • bitwize 4y ago
    "Your contract with the network when you get the show is you're going to watch the spots."
  • iopq 4y ago
    I watch youtube through firefox with adblock on
  • cercatrova 4y ago
    uBlock Origin and SponsorBlock is what I use.