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I don't care when YouTube does a buffer thing because blocking ads for me is about distractions and context switching. My cognitive load is already very high an
by ddtaylor 1y ago
I don't care when YouTube does a buffer thing because blocking ads for me is about distractions and context switching. My cognitive load is already very high and it's extremely frustrating to have to filter out more garbage.
- paulcole 1y agoYou could just pay the $13/month? Would save the worries about context switching further taxing your already high cognitive load? And I would expect your high cognitive load helps you earn well above $13/month?
- frollogaston 1y agoYou can 1. pay the $13/mo 2. try to make the adblocker work or 3. not watch YouTube. So far options 2 on desktop and 3 on iPhone have been ok for me.
- paulcole 1y agoYou’re forgetting: 4. Don’t use an adblocker and watch YouTube. I’ve been doing #1 for over 5 years and will never do anything different (up to say $50-ish USD a month).
- dmd 1y agoExcept they want it both ways. I tried Youtube Premium for a few months. Slowly but surely the ads came back, so back to blocking and not paying I went.
- betenoire 1y agowhat? I don't see ads unless the creator themselves are doing it, and even then it's two clicks on the right arrow button and we move on
- snapplebobapple 1y agoSponsorblock is a god send. It automates all that
- jbm 1y agoI don't know if this is serious or not but I get zero ads with Youtube Premium even on my phone.
- sandworm101 1y agoYoutube premium can look very different between places/people. Many with premium still see them. Youtube seems to be testing various markets to see how many ads it takes before people cancel their subscriptions. Also, you have to accept google cookies and such for them to identify you as a subscriber, so many privacy-focused users will see ads regardless of premium subscriptions.
- dleslie 1y agoPaying for YT doesn't remove the ads. On the other hand, the golden era of YouTube has passed. You aren't losing out on much if you simply stop using it.
- frollogaston 1y agoTo be clear, you mean it doesn't remove YouTube-placed ads inside the video? Edit: I'm not talking about the creator's own sponsorships, or the YouTube homepage showing static ads for movies or whatever.
- stingraycharles 1y agoI pay for YouTube premium, it absolutely removes YouTube-placed ads. Creators also get a kickback when premium users watch their videos, as they don’t make money off the YouTube ads anymore.
- frollogaston 1y agoOk, that's what I thought too.
- aftbit 1y agoI wish it would also remove YouTube's internal advertising. I pay for YouTube Premium, but I can't permanently hide shorts or prevent it from popping up whatever random topic they want me to engage with. Every 30 days or so, I have to click "Show Fewer Shorts" and every week or two, I have to opt out of the topic du jour, and I have to do this separately on every device.
- pier25 1y agoYoutube premium does remove all Google's ads. Obviously not the ads the content creator has put into the video itself.
- chasebank 1y agoThere's an add-on called sponsor block, which works remarkably well, that will just skip sponsored ads inside videos.
- mindslight 1y agoGiving them money rewards them for pulling a bait and switch where they set the price of hosting plus watching video at free, but are now trying to extort the ecosystem after so many people spent effort uploading. Don't encourage hostile behavior.
- frollogaston 1y agoWhat did you want them to do instead, put ads or charge money per view starting in 2005?
- mindslight 1y agoSure, that would have been one honest option. Dumping an artificially free option into the market crowded out other options from being adopted or even developed.
- frollogaston 1y agoThis is how all tech companies got funded, and still do. YouTube doesn't even have much of a network effect, it's just that nobody made anything comparable that was actually better.
- mindslight 1y ago> This is how all tech companies got funded, and still do This isn't really germane to what's right. We all know how the surveillance industry operates - subsidizing investment, lock in, and then enshittification. And sure, it seems to work for it in a pragmatic sense. But that doesn't mean we should find virtue in rewarding it, which was what the original argument is about. > YouTube doesn't even have much of a network effect I'm not interested in arguing with goalposts being moved, especially by ignorance.
- paulcole 1y agoIs it more right for you to expect something for nothing?
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- adzm 1y agoSeriously, it's a great price for a great service.
- nradov 1y agoHow is it possible to have a high cognitive load while watching YouTube? Are you watching surgery training videos in the middle of conducting a heart transplant or something?
- ddtaylor 1y agoI am trying to stay as recent with offerings from teams like LangGraph. The rate these frameworks, research, etc. is fast. Either way, if I've set aside some time to focus on a video about X it's very frustrating for me to first disregard a few unrelated Y.
- nicbou 1y agoIt's the digital equivalent of being stopped by canvassers on your way to something important.