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Anybody reading this site can afford to pay for YouTube Premium to eliminate the ads. How much is your time worth?
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A lot of people watch YouTube using their smart TVs.
Yes, not so smart now… Edit: However I do marvel at the infrastructure in place to support this, even at scale it can’t be cheap.
How? Google made $182 billion in revenue in 2020, of which $41 billion was profit [1] (mostly in ads), and Youtube alone is on track to generate $15 billion of those [2] on an annualized basis (also almost all in ad revenue).
[1] https://abc.xyz/investor/static/pdf/2020Q4_alphabet_earnings... [2] https://www.theverge.com/2020/2/3/21121207/youtube-google-al...
SponsorBlock to auto-skip in-video ads.
PiHole for network-wide blocking. Or just add Energized hosts to your router's hosts file, I like Ultimate.
Or set adguard DNS in your router/smartphone/PC.
They really do work.
I would vouch they need money to pay for hosting and everything else, and as a free service perhaps ads are the only way. Not sure how one can expect youtube to host that amount of content for free perpetually. I dislike ads, particularly dark patterns, and shocking I pay for youtube premium. An unpopular opinion but can someone please explain how can all this be hosted for free? Or why do some believe they should?
I would vouch they need money to pay for hosting and everything else, and as a free service perhaps ads are the only way. Not sure how one can expect youtube to host that amount of content for free perpetually. I dislike ads, particularly dark patterns, and shocking I pay for youtube premium. An unpopular opinion but can someone please explain how can all this be hosted for free? Or why do some believe they should?
Doing so would allow them to cross reference all their tracking to my personal details, or at least to a fixed id.
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A lot of people watch YouTube using their smart TVs.
Smart as in 'Stephen Hawking smart' or smart as in 'Machiavellian smart'? Things can be one or the other (but not exclusively).
- Intelligence is being able to observe systems [1] and understand how they work. Both Hawking and Machiavelli objectively have this.
- Smartness is being able to use one's understanding of a system [1] to achieve one's own goals. Both Hawking and Machiavelli objectively have this.
- Wisdom is being able to choose the right goals. This is where there is a clear distinction between Hawking and Machiavelli, and since it requires moral judgment to deliberate whom of them chooses "the right goals", this cannot have an objective answer.
By the way, it's easy to see with these systems that existing machines that are supposedly "intelligent" and "smart" are in fact neither.
[1] "System" shall be interpreted in the broadest way possible, i.e. "any network of interconnected actors", e.g. a machine or the financial system or any society of people.
Just use an adblocker. The only time I see see ads on YouTube are when I'm using someone else's browser.
Exactly. I don't understand people not having an ad blocker... Otherwise pi-hole is a good option for your local network.
Just use an adblocker. The only time I see see ads on YouTube are when I'm using someone else's browser.
I have ad blocker. I block all ads at the DNS level. I don't think you can block some of the ads on YT. Is that possible with browser plugins?