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Ha! I just knew I won't need to waste money on a faster Internet to watch YouTube smoother. YouTube slows you down anyways. But in all seriousness: 1) YouTube

by nirui 3y ago

Ha! I just knew I won't need to waste money on a faster Internet to watch YouTube smoother. YouTube slows you down anyways. But in all seriousness: 1) YouTube can slow it down all you want, ban my account if you have to, I'll not remove my adblocker. 2) YouTube should really reconsider their business strategy, and charging their advertisers more. The total amount of the garbage ads from garbage publishers on their platform is out of control, that's why I installed adblocker in the first place. Raise the price, kick those shitty ads out, good for everyone. 3) Intentionally piss off your viewers is great at converting an objective annoyance to something more personal.

renegat0x0 3y ago
I fear that majority will not be as hardwilled. Majority decide trends. Money decide the outcome.
alx_the_new_guy 3y ago
From what I've heared sort of around the block: Shitty ads actually pay more per view. Scam artists have rather fat margins and are more desperate to get their ads shown. IMO the __actual__ solution to youtube ads is unironically to buy premium (and use sponsorblock). Cheap enough and I personally find the experience of ads shoved down my throat actually degrading (so have been using adblockers). Probably would get those 5-10$ worth of ads not being shown in couple evenings/mornings while listening to stuff during commute. Alternatively, something like floatplane, but the the whole yt premuium costs like 3-5 channels on floatplane, and general lack of site-wide subscription tier is a deal-braker to me, so no. Thing is, video production, storage and distributions are expensive af. There are little to no alternatives explicitly because, especially at small scale, the model is unsustainable. If youtube presumably keeps loosing money to google, there will be no youtube outside of paid tiers, or, indeed, something like floatplane.

by nirui 3y ago

renegat0x0 3y ago

I fear that majority will not be as hardwilled. Majority decide trends. Money decide the outcome.

alx_the_new_guy 3y ago

From what I've heared sort of around the block: Shitty ads actually pay more per view. Scam artists have rather fat margins and are more desperate to get their ads shown. IMO the __actual__ solution to youtube ads is unironically to buy premium (and use sponsorblock). Cheap enough and I personally find the experience of ads shoved down my throat actually degrading (so have been using adblockers). Probably would get those 5-10$ worth of ads not being shown in couple evenings/mornings while listening to stuff during commute. Alternatively, something like floatplane, but the the whole yt premuium costs like 3-5 channels on floatplane, and general lack of site-wide subscription tier is a deal-braker to me, so no. Thing is, video production, storage and distributions are expensive af. There are little to no alternatives explicitly because, especially at small scale, the model is unsustainable. If youtube presumably keeps loosing money to google, there will be no youtube outside of paid tiers, or, indeed, something like floatplane.