Back in the day most media was designed around commercial interruptions. Watch some old cartoons on Netflix, they often have "fade to black" moments after which the last 10 seconds are repeated. Nowadays commercials are algorithmically inserted into content to maximize viewership, meaning that more often then not a YouTube commercial will play right before the most important bit of the video.
Still better than old school linear tv, where you paid to watch things being constantly interrupted by paid commercials.
So anyways, I installed Firefox with ublock origin and Sponsorblock
"I"m playing both sides so that I come out on top?"
not the first time capitalism asks you for money to solve problems capitalism created...
I'd pay YouTube if it were $5/month instead of $15.
In fact, a couple of my favorite YouTube creators are on nebula.tv and I pay them $30/year.
I scrape videos off of YouTube using Pinchflat which dumps them into a folder, predownloaded for me, which I then have connected to a Jellyfin server that splits each channel up as an individual series, ads and bumpers stripped entirely, and it automatically downloads videos as they release.
Paying sounded too involved. Make a google account, etc...
Who has the time?
*and we block YouTube ads to not show ads
Youtube sends me data, I simply do not accept it. Simple as. No higher argument is needed
YouTube keeps uBlock functioning to keep me going to their website.
The thing with advertising is that the advertisers make more money in product sales from people who watched ads than they spend telling YT to push their ads. That's just how the advertising business works.
In other words, either the viewers pay youtube not to show ads, or the viewers pay the advertisers to pay youtube (in a roundabout way).
So it's just you paying in both cases, unless you use an adblocker :)
PSA: firefox + ublock origin blocks youtube ads even on mobile (on android at least)
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The bourgeoisie (parasites) pay the bourgeoisie (parasites) to make their service worse in an attempt to extract more capital from you. You give the bourgeoisie capital… to stop them from making their service worse in order to take your capital?
This is a lose lose for you and a win win for corpo scum. Use an Adblock, take to the seven seas, use platforms that are decentralized. Then it’s a win win for you and, added bonus, it’s typically parasite free.
Well yes, that's how they don't go out of business. In theory.
"We"? Who's "we"? There is no "we".So you're saying the audience for the ads have the people who are willing to pay for stuff, the very people the advertisers are paying to reach, removed from it.
I wonder how much longer this will go before the advertisers catch on to that.
Advertising is a racket. Always has been.
Yes that's how a company makes money...continue, you can do this!
Moonoopooly babey
I'm astounded at how much is available on the internet at no/little cost. Think how valuable our data must be for them to continue providing it.
Yeah. That's how it works. They get money either from serving you ads or exempting you from the ad service. Either way they get money.
I mean...yeah. Ads subsidize viewers that can't/won't pay. That's the whole system. Did you expect something else?
Sucks but better than paying for cable to still see ads.
I mean companies don’t pay if you don’t see the ads, they just show the ads to someone else and you didn’t pay if you see the ads.
y'know, it used to be that you paid money for things and there wasn't even an ad option.
