So does this mean YT will stop demonetizing creators I watch?
Which creators?
YouTube is testing a more aggressive approach against ad blockers
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#142From the article: >“YouTube’s ad-supported model supports a diverse ecosystem of creators, and provides billions of people globally access to content for free with ads,” the company’s statement says. Let's at least be 100% honest with everyone and stop with the disingenuous garbage: 1. Ad-blocker usage is roughly 25-30% of US users. 2. The average YouTube content creator makes less than 0.02 per ad view and thus why…
Don't forget that YouTube will actively "demonetize" videos of small/medium creators, and take whatever ad rev. was made on it for themselves and kill the reach of a video.
Curiously the same content from bigger brands gets a pass.
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#143Personally, one solution is to subsrcibe for Nebula + CurisoityStream bundle to support creators (bought 2 subscriptions for me and friend) https://curiositystream.com/?coupon=nebula and use something like PeerTube for the rest of the stuff.
Youtube have great catalogue of the lectures and other educational material, so it is still kinda irreplaceable
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#144I mean they want you to subscribe to YouTube premium. At least they’re being honest about this and give you the option. I have a few issues with google but this isn’t one (After being forced to spend many hours upgrading to google analytics rev 4….) It’s expensive, but I’ve done it, but it also includes YouTube music which I like.
At least over here in Finland you can get premium light which is just 6.99e per month, and does not include youtube music.
Which was the thing that finally made me upgrade, as I already have a preferred music streaming service, I refused the premium bundle out of principle for a long time.
As a principle, I think each product and service should stand by itself and bundling things up just makes the experience worse for the end user (Teams etc). But that's a bit different discussion.
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#145Strange move, people use adblockers for a reason, 2-3 unskipable bs ads. Instead better limit quality to 480/720p. This way they'll save money for traffic. No adblocker?, Can go up to 1080p. Yt premium?, Welkome to 4k. Yt premium+?, Welcome to >8k
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#146Could you, in theory, stream a “video” of a website to the user and handle only the input (mouse, keybord) from the user? The user would then not interact with a website but with a “video” where everything is rendered server side thus making it impossible to block any ads.
Too bad Stadia got (mostly) killed off, sounds like the perfect use case
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#147So does this mean YT will stop demonetizing creators I watch?
Which creators?
Majority of them actually, about every channel I sub to mentions about being demonetized for one reason or other and have alternative means to support them, and I do mean majority, guitar channel plays too many bars of a song, demonetized, channel covering ukraine war or other conflicts, demonetized, podcast has a guest, demonetized, news channel covers a topic, demonetized. YT is garbage, but that's just my personal perspective.
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#148So YouTube is going to make it impossible to watch without ads. Reddit's communities are going dark because Reddit (essentially) wants more ad revenue. Facebook and Instagram have been plastered with ads for longer than they haven't. And we're just a short hop from ads being "Attention required" with eyeballs tracked. I wonder if there's a possibility that this will shake Youtube from it's dominance.
> So YouTube is going to make it impossible to watch without ads. There is an option.
The only option is uBlock + SponsorBlock.
YouTube premium is still full of ads.
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#149I mean they want you to subscribe to YouTube premium. At least they’re being honest about this and give you the option. I have a few issues with google but this isn’t one (After being forced to spend many hours upgrading to google analytics rev 4….) It’s expensive, but I’ve done it, but it also includes YouTube music which I like.
I found YouTube Music surprisingly full-fledged. The library is not as complete as Spotify or Apple Music of course, but, you also get the user uploads, which is a much more reliable resource for those few odd tracks. With Premium you also get to minimize the YouTube app on the phone. It's nice for talks and discussions that are not uploaded as podcasts.
ReVanced solves minimizing
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#150A few day ago I disabled my ad blocking to test something and then browsed some of my daily sites. If ad blocking ever becomes impossible, I'll quit using the web immediately.