Fuck YT, but bad meme. YouTube has never been profitable
this post was submitted on 28 Apr 2024
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I'm not here to defend the soulless multi-million dollar corporation, but we don't actually know how much money it costs for youtube to stay up. The scale they are operating on is immense, I wouldn't be surprised, if they were still making a loss with 10 midroll ads.
Big businesses are perfectly capable of releasing financial documents indicating what branches are making and losing money. If they don't do so, there's a good reason for it. Often that reason involves them doing things that are either shady or lying to the public about what's actually happening.
We should not give them the benefit of the doubt in situations like this, because we would only be feeding their manipulation tactics.
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They almost certainly are running at a loss. Same as Twitch, their parent companies are generally okay with it, because they also serve as pretty solid tech demos for other services they offer (YouTube runs on Google Cloud Platform, Twitch runs on Amazon Web Services), and that pays off indirectly.
Moreover, their parent companies can use them as free advertising. Google about to launch a new phone? Guess what you’re gonna see ads for!
I think the term for this is “loss leader”
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Mid to late 2000s adds were very easy to avoid
Didn't have to pay to see much of anything.
Just every now and then a virus.
Soon we will return to that, except smarter and more adept at not downloading viruses and traps songs labelled as Linkin park
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Is there a blocker I can use on the android YouTube app? I put videos when I'm doing dishes, and in the last year the ads have gotten so long that if you don't skip em or can't (cause you're hands are wet) they go on for 10 minutes or more. The worst are the ads that end, but don't leave your screen until you physically press skip.
YouTube revanced gives me ad blocking with sponsor block included
NewPipe app is a good one, or Tubular if you want sponsor block too (though you can't comment or like videos etc. on either). But if you want to use the actual YT app, the solutions in the other comments are good. ~~I assume that setting up a Pihole or some other ad-blocking DNS could also work.~~ I assumed wrong. See reply.
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NewPipe
Check out “ReVanced” YouTube.
It takes set up and maintenance but it is well worth the effort as you get all YouTube premium features, latest YouTube app updates, and other enhancements.
Direct link to GitHub- https://github.com/ReVanced
EDIT:
Removed the incorrect “.net” Link as mentioned below.
This is not their official website. Never download revanced from anywhere other than their GitHub repository or https://revanced.app
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If you have a rooted phone and Magisk there is a module that essentially turns the stock YouTube app into the Premium version without adds and background play enabled.
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Brave or Vanced or Firefox with uBlock origin
Vanced is dead. Use revanced or revancify(requires terminal).
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The reason YouTube makes the ads so unbearably obnoxious is they want people to pay for premium. That's all they're doing is annoying people until they pay. I've been paying for premium since the beginning, I know it's awful, but at least I have never seen any ads.
youtube prem + youtube music family plan with 6 total users at $22.99 is pretty reasonable.
I remember when YouTube was free, and ad-free. I've been posting videos to YouTube since 2005. Then a few years later they put a price on it, "Premium" became $9 a month. Something something Pepperidge Farm remembers
And I was grandfathered in at that price even after they raised their prices for everyone else, but then for some reason I got upset and I canceled YouTube but then I couldn't live without it so I subscribed again and they put me back in at the regular price with all the new people 😡
I had the same deal, my comment is in regard to the family plan, which allocates 6 total accounts. I thought $3.83 per person a month was reasonable for the hd music alone, youtube prem was just a plus, but based on other comments I'm apparently a dipshit. 🤷
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Until they pull a Microsoft and start throwing ads into the paid model as well.
Or like all the other streaming platforms that you paid a subscription for to not see ads, but believe it or not you now have ads.
Unfortunately, this is becoming increasingly common. Amazon now also shows ads on the Prime streaming service even though you already pay a subscription fee for it.
yeah I havent experienced it myself with YouTube, but I have heard some people say they pay for premium and they've started getting ads 😡 YouTube is a huge part of my life and I would be livid if this happened and I don't know what I would do because I don't know how I could live without YT I would love to say that I would abandon YouTube if they pulled this shit on me, but I just can't even imagine my life without YouTube. I don't pay for any other service, no Hulu, no Disney Plus, no HBO blah blah whatever the heck other people are paying for. when I'm craving watching something, I always go to YouTube. And I have several YouTube channels too, so YT is an integral part of my life 😭
Yeah premium makes 15 dollars per month. Ads for an average viewer makes dozens of cents per month.
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Ads never bothered me on YouTube.
They’re bothering me enough now that I’m going with an android phone after more than a decade on iPhones just so I can get back to YouTube the way it used to be with a decent ad blocker (better than it used to be actually).
I can’t fucking stand it, and again, it didn’t bother me before.
Want to show someone a short clip? Nah. Gotta skip two fucking ads first while you stand there looking stupid and waiting.
I’m fucking done.
The irony of a Google product pissing you off so you switch from iOS to Android
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