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Those are really good points, thanks. I'm sure many wouldn't need to use adblockers in the first place if YT were not bloated. Like they try to shove the "Shor

Those are really good points, thanks. I'm sure many wouldn't need to use adblockers in the first place if YT were not bloated. Like they try to shove the "Shorts" thing in your feed. Ads could be displayed around the video (in "Up Next" section) and probably would be even more effective since most people don't maximize videos, so they'd see those ads all the time. It's just that YT has made ads so annoying that people have no option but to use adblockers. On top of that, there are ads inside the videos by the creators (they're part of the video so you can't skip them). Without SponsorBlock, many videos are simply unbearable. Even if I were a paying customer (which I used to be), I'd still use adblockers to block Shorts, video-ads inside videos, and various HTML elements of the page.

PaulHoule 3y ago
It's the nature of their business model. Wall Street expects that kind of company to put up better earnings quarter after quarter. At some point they have close to 100% market penetration and can't grow by adding more users. But they can always increase the ad load. The ads in the videos have gotten out of hand. I feel really bad for one of my favorite YouTubers who, in desperation, started his own brand of pre-workout caffeinated chewing gum which seems like such a dumb idea to me. (I think Singapore has it right about gum) Shorts is another example of business theater, they have to do something to convince investors they are taking TikTok seriously. Trouble though is that it is very hard to convince people involved in online activity A to try online activity B. Look at the lack of success of Threads... Instagram users just weren't interested. It is why Facebook has had to buy so many competitors because even though Facebook has 1B+ users they just can't convert them to play some new game. Really though, there is some setting to hide "Shorts" and after all the time they tried to show me pictures of pretty young girls shaking their asses they finally showed me something I will click on which is an older lady in the UK who has foxes coming up to her front door, meets foxes in the street, etc.

PaulHoule 3y ago

It's the nature of their business model. Wall Street expects that kind of company to put up better earnings quarter after quarter. At some point they have close to 100% market penetration and can't grow by adding more users. But they can always increase the ad load. The ads in the videos have gotten out of hand. I feel really bad for one of my favorite YouTubers who, in desperation, started his own brand of pre-workout caffeinated chewing gum which seems like such a dumb idea to me. (I think Singapore has it right about gum) Shorts is another example of business theater, they have to do something to convince investors they are taking TikTok seriously. Trouble though is that it is very hard to convince people involved in online activity A to try online activity B. Look at the lack of success of Threads... Instagram users just weren't interested. It is why Facebook has had to buy so many competitors because even though Facebook has 1B+ users they just can't convert them to play some new game. Really though, there is some setting to hide "Shorts" and after all the time they tried to show me pictures of pretty young girls shaking their asses they finally showed me something I will click on which is an older lady in the UK who has foxes coming up to her front door, meets foxes in the street, etc.