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Ads mostly make money for Google not the channel owners, there is a reason most creators look to other services (sponcers, patron, etc)
That's not true. The revenue share has been stable at 55% to the creators / 45% to YouTube for more than a decade.
Uninstalls? Would’ve thought most people savvy to blocker extensions in the first place would know how to disable them for specific troublesome sites, but... (shrug emoji).
I think many content creators have recognized that it's important to expand their brand outside of youtube so they're not so beholden to youtube. I wonder if this is opening cracks for competitors.
I don't see how this comment tracks with the events. Content creators on Youtube are paid from ads and subscriptions. If they want to give their content away for free, they can turn off Youtube ads since they are the ones turning them on in the first place.
I wonder if anyone in the industry has any insights in how a regular developer can help improve ad blockers? Where to get started? As a huge fan of blocking ads, this makes me feel inspired to join the fight against Google. How can I help?
Uninstalls? Would’ve thought most people savvy to blocker extensions in the first place would know how to disable them for specific troublesome sites, but... (shrug emoji).
I think the suggestion is that users are uninstalling their current ad blocker in order to install another ad blocker that they hope can still block ads on YouTube, not that they're uninstalling the ad blockers entirely.
The answer is no, because Youtube's current crop of ads is full of outright scams and conspiracy theory stuff. Content that would probably be massively de-emphasized by the youtube algorithm or even outright banned is apparently okay to show as long as you pay Google a few thousand dollars to run it as an ad.
So now I just use Invidious.
I avoid anything with Ads and will simply avoid YouTube, as I already have been avoiding it for a long time for simply not having useful content.
I think many content creators have recognized that it's important to expand their brand outside of youtube so they're not so beholden to youtube. I wonder if this is opening cracks for competitors.
I know of one person doing their own thing except for Patreon. Are there many more?
This Week In Tech hosts their own content, in addition to youtube uploads and other services.
Honestly, if I have to pay $14 / mo or watch ads? I'm just going to focus on other hobbies like reading.