I've got so many layers of adblock it's hard to know which one(s) are responsible for blocking the ads.
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Same here. Was just explaining to a coworker who was complaining about YT ads that I "just" use PiHole+Unbound for network blocking, AirVPN with DNS blocking, mullvad Private DNS on Android, and then Libretube to view my self-hosted Piped instance. As I said it I realized how ridiculous it's gotten and how deranged I probably sound.
I just use use uBlock Origin.
This all sounds like extremely reasonable to me. Fuck the haters.
For those who don't know: VLC also takes a YouTube video address as input (in the menu: Media | Open Network Stream...).
This is such a better use of their time and dollars versus improving their service to make it more attractive to customers.
If this is the change that really sets them financially straight, then I would say they have a failing business model.
This is such a better use of their time and dollars versus improving their service to make it more attractive to customers.
Making their service more attractive to customers is precicesly what they're trying to do.
It's just that an advertising agency's customers are not the folk who watch, read or hear the ads, it's the folk who pay for the ads.
I am not sure if it will work out like this though. The amount of ads they are forcing down peoples throat is isane. Eventually it will make people consume less videos and with that less ads overall.
And thus the enshittification cycle completes
You are not the customer. You are the product.
Yes, but if they destroy their products (aka drive users away) their real customers (ad companies) will pull out.
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Less viewer numbers to show to advertisers.
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If premium cost $5per month I'd pay for it, u use YouTube all the time
No way in hell it's worth $15 a month though, their pricing is completely brwindead
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So you know that the people watching YouTube aren’t really considered “customers” by google in the traditional sense, right?
I'll just stop using YouTube like I've stopped using Reddit.
I'm ready for that. When being a youtuber started looking like a job I think the site lost something.
Yeah, YouTube was better when it was a bunch of amateur cat videos.
I'd say just smaller, less scripted content. Maybe that's what tiktok is.
There was a sweet spot when cat videos went pro. Then the spam killed it.