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It’s crazy you can pay for premium, which is not cheap, and you can’t disable shorts. The number of times I clicked “show less” and it has zero effect on the number of shorts.
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> you're circumventing the method of paying for content. I disagree. If you were buying every advertised product and falling for every advertised scam then fair enough. But assuming you were ignoring them, there is no issue with offloading the thing you would do anyway to a computer and save everyone the time/bandwidth.
The advertiser is buying the right to put an advert in front of you, not the right to a sale. Whether they convert you is up to them, their product, their offering, etc. I think you can never buy a single product from an ad and this is still piracy. That said, a lot of advertising is not performance/pay-per-click focused as you've described and is instead brand advertising. The point of the Coca-Cola christmas ads is…
The advertiser may well think that's what they're buying, but what they're actually getting is the right to send my browser a URL, which they hope I will fetch and view.
I would prefer not to, so I don't.
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I never managed to install it it complains about youtube app being separated into parts or smth like that
That's a feature: if you can't work out which YouTube apk to patch them you'll never work out the rest of the installation process.
You know who has great information density? Pornhub. If you open Pornhub on a 4K screen, you will absolutely see none of the thumbnails. I think YouTube is overdoing it, but it is really a thing of: people are either using really small screens or 1080p. 4K is still not around much.
Because unlike YouTube, porn is an actually competitive industry with plenty of “tube” sites to choose from. So they have to compete on UX.
I think there's another version that if porn adopts a tech that means that the tech will work. Like, a lot of VR adoption early on was porn. By a lot, I mean most.
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Because unlike YouTube, porn is an actually competitive industry with plenty of “tube” sites to choose from. So they have to compete on UX.
Google "Ethical Capital Partners." Operates: Pornhub RedTube YouPorn Brazzers Digital Playground Men.com Reality Kings SpankWire
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Turning search history off on youtube about a year ago has been one of my best personal "digital life upgrades" in a while.
I did that and now it shows only polarizing videos on the right from both ends.
So I basically either watch my curated subscriptions or something I specifically searched for.
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I dont particularly enjoy red bulls drinks, but their ads are often cool enough to be considered content. It's probably the only company with ads that are more enjoyable than their product.
I used to think they were a foundation dedicated to funding extreme sports who also happened to sell an energy drink as well. Their business is basically selling poison but creating such absurd quantities of great free entertainment that everyone forgives them.
Like really, checkout the redbull ingredient list sometime. There's not much to it.
Not saying it's healthy at all. Nobody should really be drinking energy drinks, but Redbull is probably the least awful of the bunch.
YouTube has become so bad that I had to resort to Tampermonkey scripts to become bearable. First was the disgusting pink tones in the progress bar. Then the oversized thumbnails / less videos per page. Then the horrible over sized player controls. And now the oversized suggestions on the side bar. Not to mention the obnoxious amount and duration of ads. It's getting worse and worse. These are all symptoms that someth…
Also recommend DeArrow and SponsorBlock.
But also flip content creators a $5 every once in a while. That's more revenue than they'll ever get from you watchin their videos.