YouTube ads in Safari: you see them now, will you see them in the future?

Post by mullingitover » Thu, May 20, 2021, 7:11 AM UTC

izacus wrote: post #199

mullingitover wrote: post #121

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Not free anymore - they're now adware that's monetizing your viewers after unilaterally changing terms and cutting you out of the deal. It arguably puts them on equal footing with people who unilaterally change the terms of the site usage deal and block their ads. Remember, forcing you to watch ads means it's not free - it's you trading irreplaceable moments of your life for something. Unless your time is worth absol…

Why are you constantly ignoring the fact that they also keep paying for all the bandwidth, encoder CPU use and development of playback platforms for any device brand capable of showing a video out there? Try running a hosting platform yourself and you'll quickly see just how crazy expensive bandwidth is. It's just ridiculous to expect that someone will 100% subsidize your video bandwidth for free.

Post by manigandham » Thu, May 20, 2021, 7:19 AM UTC

VRay wrote: post #125

babypuncher wrote: post #114

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Frankly I just hate the idea of YouTube creators getting paid for their work. /s

I'd pay half a cent per video or whatever it works out to be, but I'm not going to pay by letting Google or any other corporations track my every move and action

Post by manigandham » Thu, May 20, 2021, 7:26 AM UTC

anticristi wrote: post #7

twobitshifter wrote: post #2

The battle between ad platforms and users is going to be never ending. For YouTube, the _right_ thing to do is to pay for the premium option which removes ads. Otherwise as difficult as it is to say, you are getting something for nothing and people do make a living from YouTube videos. Ok, maybe you can contribute to a patreon outside of YouTube, but you’re not going to do that for everyone and those videos are not s…

I would, but: 1. I feel a 45% cut to YouTube is too big. Compare that to Patreon, which takes 5%. Granted YouTube offers a lot more for their cut, but the difference feels too big, especially given point 2 below. 2. YouTube is extremely untransparent about revenue sharing, so it feels like I'm paying Google, not the creators. So give me more transparency and take a smaller cut, and I'll be happy to disable my ad bloc…

Post by TedShiller » Thu, May 20, 2021, 7:34 AM UTC

rchaud wrote: post #55

wayneftw wrote: post #30

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I would pay to get rid of ads. The only problem is that I would need to log into YouTube to take advantage of that. If I log into YouTube, that requires me to be logged into Google everywhere and I do not want that at all. The only solution is to use Firefox containerization or use separate browsers or separate browser profiles for things and I'm not going to do any of those because all of those options are annoying…

> If I log into YouTube, that requires me to be logged into Google everywhere and I do not want that at all. You can use Firefox Containers to sandbox Google logins. Alternatively, you can use a different browser when accessing Google-owned websites.

Post by jb1991 » Thu, May 20, 2021, 7:40 AM UTC

speedgoose wrote: post #190

jb1991 wrote: post #188

This one single problem is why I switched to Firefox. Even the FF mobile app does a much better job.

You can't switch to Firefox on iOS. It's Safari,or Safari with Firefox' UI. Apple forbids other web browser engines on iOS.