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YouTube offers an ad-free service. (yes, I know content providers can still embed their own promotions into their videos).

pierat 3y ago
Ublock Origin is great at anti-adverts and anti-anti-adtech. For everything else, use SponsorBlock! (Crowdsourced auto-skip YouTube for annoying in-video adverts)
yedava 3y ago
It does, but Youtube still collects your data and sells it to advertisers. So watching a video on Youtube could mean seeing targeted ads on other platforms. So the solution is to always use adblocking everywhere.
yjftsjthsd-h 3y ago
If the "ad-free" service features videos with inline ads, it's not really ad-free.
- jvolkman 3y ago
  The inline ads are part of the content you're watching, not injected by YouTube. You may not like them, but there's a distinction.
  - yjftsjthsd-h 3y ago
    Yes there's distinction internally, but as the consumer I care that I'm getting ads more than the details
- mardef 3y ago
  It serves the authors content ad-free. You can choose to subscribe to authors that do not place ads or sponsored content in their videos. When I dropped cable I started subscribing to dozens of channels and now have a pretty solid subscription list. Many creators I follow have dabbled in different forms of monetization, and I've preferred to stick with the ones that offer patterns or other methods of supporting them. I don't think it's fair to criticize googles product offering for the content creators choices
  - yjftsjthsd-h 3y ago
    > It serves the authors content ad-free. No, it serves the content without adding more ads of its own. > You can choose to subscribe to authors that do not place ads or sponsored content in their videos. If not consuming the content I wanted is a solution, I can just solve all the problems by not using youtube. That's not really a solution.
netsharc 3y ago
Interesting incentives. Watch scam ads, use an ad blocker (no longer allowed), or pay Google to go ad-free. Looks like Google benefits by allowing scammy ads...
rchaud 3y ago
This doesn't let you turn off the recommendations algorithm. A huge chunk of Youtube videos are essentially ads. No dice.

pierat 3y ago

Ublock Origin is great at anti-adverts and anti-anti-adtech. For everything else, use SponsorBlock! (Crowdsourced auto-skip YouTube for annoying in-video adverts)

yedava 3y ago

It does, but Youtube still collects your data and sells it to advertisers. So watching a video on Youtube could mean seeing targeted ads on other platforms. So the solution is to always use adblocking everywhere.

yjftsjthsd-h 3y ago

If the "ad-free" service features videos with inline ads, it's not really ad-free.

jvolkman 3y ago
The inline ads are part of the content you're watching, not injected by YouTube. You may not like them, but there's a distinction.
- yjftsjthsd-h 3y ago
  Yes there's distinction internally, but as the consumer I care that I'm getting ads more than the details
mardef 3y ago
It serves the authors content ad-free. You can choose to subscribe to authors that do not place ads or sponsored content in their videos. When I dropped cable I started subscribing to dozens of channels and now have a pretty solid subscription list. Many creators I follow have dabbled in different forms of monetization, and I've preferred to stick with the ones that offer patterns or other methods of supporting them. I don't think it's fair to criticize googles product offering for the content creators choices
- yjftsjthsd-h 3y ago
  > It serves the authors content ad-free. No, it serves the content without adding more ads of its own. > You can choose to subscribe to authors that do not place ads or sponsored content in their videos. If not consuming the content I wanted is a solution, I can just solve all the problems by not using youtube. That's not really a solution.

netsharc 3y ago

Interesting incentives. Watch scam ads, use an ad blocker (no longer allowed), or pay Google to go ad-free. Looks like Google benefits by allowing scammy ads...

rchaud 3y ago

This doesn't let you turn off the recommendations algorithm. A huge chunk of Youtube videos are essentially ads. No dice.