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It is illegal for YouTube to have ads in albania
- __jonas 3y agoI stopped getting any ad-block prevention warnings from YouTube a while ago anyways, I guess maybe uBlock has had some update? Is it still a problem for some people?
- InCityDreams 3y agoI get a random series of letters that 'sound ok' captchas, ie "surfipol". Which means they know i know they know what I'm using.
- __jonas 3y agoYou get letter based captchas? on YouTube? I think I have never gotten a captcha on YouTube, even though I occasionally use a VPN and always an ad blocker. If I get a captcha from a Google site it's always the image grid one, haven't seen a letter based captcha from Google in years.
- 31carmichael 3y agoI live in a country with no youtube ads. Zero. It's heaven.
- joegibbs 3y agoWhy does YouTube allow people to access it in Albania? Surely if a country doesn't let you make money from your service you'd withdraw from it, or possibly require Albanians to pay for YouTube premium to access it.
- justsomehnguy 3y agoBecause people still watch Youtube and Youtube can legally add these people to the viewcount and then sell that viewcount to the buyers of ads.
- missedthecue 3y agoWhy do the buyers of ads care? I don't get it. They only care about impressions of ads.
- justsomehnguy 3y agoBecause Youtube 'sells' the viewcount as a substitute for the impressions. 'Hey, look! This video had 55M views! Imagine how many buyers you could have!'
- Invertigrate 3y agoThat makes absolutely no sense. The advertisers can't advertise to Albanian so they can't pay for neither impressions nor clicks. If you mean that the goal of this is to attract advertisers by seeing a larger view count, then that doesn't make any sense either as I don't think there's any doubt among advertisers that YouTube is the leading video platform online.
- TheCapeGreek 3y ago"Bigger number = better" marketing is still easier than something more fine-grained, even if YT is the leading platform.
- RoyalHenOil 3y agoAnother possibility is that they want to quell competition. If Albanians couldn't watch YouTube, that would create a ripe market for a YouTube alternative to make a name for itself. From there, it could expand to other countries in the region, and then maybe to Europe as a whole.
- pseudocomposer 3y agoHow would such a company pay for those bandwidth costs? YouTube was famously unprofitable until long after the Google acquisition. I don’t think the EU markets would provide as long an investment runway as YouTube got for this theoretical competitor.
- RoyalHenOil 3y agoI presume the same way YouTube, Amazon, Uber, etc., did it: by operating in the red and getting funded. I think there are likely a lot of VCs who would be very interested in having a stake in a serious competitor to YouTube.
- xigoi 3y agoThat would destroy their position as the one and only video hosting service in Albania and likely spread to other countries.
- mortallywounded 3y agoBecause Albanians help boost numbers on videos where monitization is viable, thus making the platform look more appealing to advertisers.
- amadeuspagel 3y agoAlbania is a small and poor country, the three million albanians probably don't cause them significant server costs, and they couldn't afford Youtube Premium anyway.
- justsomehnguy 3y agoAlso Burma, Moldova, Mongolia, Monaco, Mozambique, Myanmar and that one country to the East: https://old.reddit.com/r/youtube/comments/198b6ah/this_guy_has_the_right_idea/ki6n9xv/ https://old.reddit.com/r/youtube/comments/198b6ah/this_guy_h...
- leosarev 3y agoAlso, YouTube stopped to show ads to Russian users :-)
- executesorder66 3y agoTerrible idea. That will just incentivize people to invade other countries so that they can avoid seeing ads. /s
- Maxamillion96 3y agoThat doesn’t seem to be working for us here in America. Do you think we should invade another country?
- trackflak 3y agoYou underestimate how much frustration is boiling at the amount of ad breaks on YouTube videos. It only takes one political opportunist to channel it...
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- bluish29 3y agoMullvad have two servers in Albania, I guess they will be busy these days.
- Symbiote 3y agoThere's no evidence that ads are "illegal", just that they aren't served. This article has more information on the process to get advertising on YouTube in Albania: https://euronews.al/en/will-youtube-be-launched-to-albania-acromax-brings-information-after-meetings-in-berlin/ https://euronews.al/en/will-youtube-be-launched-to-albania-a...
- Alifatisk 3y agoI guess I can set my geolocation to Albania / Russia to evade the ads? It’s barely possible to listen to music with Youtube nowadays, the amount of ads is astonishing.
- DANmode 3y agoInvidious instances, in any browser. NewPipe on Android.
- mortallywounded 3y agoublock origin seems to work fine still
- rcbdev 3y agoAdSense is also unavailable in Kosovo. Not sure if it's actually an issue of legality per se.
- Demcox 3y agoPeculiar little 'hack' for circumventing the adds if you still insist on not running uBlock Origin or refrain from upgrading to FF.
- f5ve 3y agoWhy do people not run uBlock Origin? What's the case against?
- 11101010001100 3y agoI recall seeing some mental gymnastics about ads and effective altruism. I'm not sure the authors understood either ads or effective altruism.
- xigoi 3y agoBecause YouTube is a poor little company that definitely doesn’t deserve to die.
- csdreamer7 3y agoI read the TOS as giving google the right to terminate my Google account. And to be fair, video is expensive. Ads give both Google and the creators a return on their money. Edit: just to clarify; I run ublock disabled on Youtube.com
- mdrzn 3y agoDamn too bad that ProtonVPN has no servers in Albania.
- CM30 3y agoAlternatively, there's a whole list of countries by monetisation status here: https://isthischannelmonetized.com/youtube-monetization-countries-list/ https://isthischannelmonetized.com/youtube-monetization-coun... So in theory accessing YouTube via a VPN server in one of those non monetised countries should give you ad free YouTube.
- mdrzn 3y agoTried a few, but it's still waaaaaaaaaaaaaay too slower to go via VPN than having uBlock Origin.