Those YouTube ads everyone hates made $10.4 billion in just three months
If you've ever wondered why YouTube goes so hard on ads when they make the experience so miserable, well, there's your answer.
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Tbh YT premium is well worth the asking price though I wish it subsidized the free experience as that's much more important for the platform.
Only on Lemmy you get downvoted for saying you pay for a service you like...
The problem is yt premium is not able to sustain google's platform. Only google's synergic monopolies make youtube possible and alternative financially unviable. Youtube, very literally, must die. As long as youtube exists it will maintain critical mass and kill everything else judt by existing. To fund youtube is to reinfotce this entrenchment. Both paying or watching ads and arguably just watching it, empowers google momooly position and its capture of the zeitgeist.
Nope. I was well into negative on Reddit for the same.
There are tools that let you do what YT Premium provides for free unless you're hooked on the music.
I am hooked on the music.
There are tools for the music side as well
RVX Music works quite well for me on Android
RVX Music requires manual compilation, right? Also, does it properly play album version of songs? (YT Music ReVanced plays the video version of songs instead).
I don't remember having to compile it and there's a setting to prefer the album version of songs
Honestly, the service is worth it for me. I need the easiest process possible for my luddite wife and kindergartener's Amazon fire tablet. I put my mom on the account too.
But for everything else, yarrrrr.
A kindergarteners amazon fire tablet is a sentence i hope i never have to hear again
I know all the tools but I'd rather support Youtube which has ben an incredible service for me and I think it's a net good for the society so it should remain sustainable.
"Support YouTube" lol... You mean give money to Google. I think they'll be fine.
Let me explain my point of view - it's not about giving money to Google but showing the business that there's a viable monetization strategy that isn't locking down content or fighting ad blockers.
Let's say there is no Youtube premium and everyone has an adblocker then google has no choice but to fight ad blocking harder or lock down the content because Youtube starts to bleed money. Now some lazy people pay for Premium and we have this little golden mean where everyone can kinda use the platform kinda freely which is a pretty good compromise if you ask me.
Sadly I haven't found a tool that works on smart TVs, so I just pay for it
Sadly I have Roku TVs
Yeah, if anybody figures out a solution for Roku.. please tell me. I'm set everywhere except one Roku stick in my basement, hooked up to my projector. The best place to watch movies in the house, the only place with ads.
I stuck with Roku because it works if I block their ads on my pihole, and I can pay or steal everything else
Musify exists.
