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We do not negotiate with terrorists
I would think posters on HN would understand that a service costs money. Any time I can pay with money instead of with my sanity, I choose money.
> a service costs money
Ahh, but that's just it.
Youtube Premium isn't a service, it's a package.
If I could pay for Youtube by itself I would, but I can't, so I shan't.
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And money. Metered connections do exist, and ads consume a lot of bandwidth which is not free.
The cognitive load is the worst part of ads for me. The amounts of ads that display an X to close the banner only for that X to be an actual link to another fkn ad or straight up opens a new tab. Not to mention the invisible divs spanning the entire page so wherever you click, it's gonna open a link which is most of time either porn, betting sites or aliexpress. This sh* should be illegal.
I dont press the x, I use uBlocks ZAP feature to close unwanted elements.
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#274I run Firefox+uBlock origin on multiple computers and OSs and haven't been affected. I'm always logged into YT.
If it's true that YT is actively trying to avoid ad blockers then I guess I may have been pushed down their priority list because I occasionally run a video or two while logged in on my phone via official app where ads actually run.
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I wonder what the CO2 emissions of all these ads are?
So many people so concerned about CO2 emissions from computing devices... all the way down to Microsoft setting the default timeout for Bluetooth on Windows 11 to ONE MINUTE. It took me 2 weeks of hair pulling and updating everything before I realized why my mouse and keyboard would stop working, because it NEVER occurred to me in my WILDEST dreams that an OS developer would be given the insane task of creating a tim…
True, I wonder how much power the inefficient "Windows Update" uses every month, too.
I can hear the fans on my Windows machine spin up, and I know it's Windows Update time.
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#276gorhill should be given a Nobel Prize and a knighthood for contributions to humanity.
Yes and: apparently the moderators on reddit's r/ublock have been having rough time. At least one has quit and deleted their account because of abusive users. No good deed goes unpunished.
Is r/ublock even needed? What is it for?
In general, I view Reddit as a complete cesspool; I'm not really sure what any sub there really needs to exist. Most OSS projects get along just fine without it (in fact, I've never heard of one that used it).
I mean, it sucks that abusive users are out there, but it is Reddit after all. For communications with users, I think the old-style method of having Bugzilla and requiring an account to file bugs is probably the best.
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#278Earlier quoted context omitted.
You have to include the fact that the very clear objective of advertising is to make you consume more. Thus producing more pollution than if there were no ads. So, even if advertising was technically neutral (which is clearly not the case), it would still be an ecological cataclysm. One would even argue that the whole climate emergency is created by our advertise/consume culture.
That, plus the industry exists to support a negative-sum game. Past some degree of market or channel or target saturation, the only thing your ad spend does is cancels out the ad spend of your competitors. That, and it fuels the growth of an industry that's happy to enjoy the infinite money printer.
And the services needed to consume said money printer. GCP wouldn’t exist. To be fair, a lot of it runs on AWS so AWS’ business would take a serious hit as well.
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#280Earlier quoted context omitted.
To be fair Youtube has to make a profit somehow. Ad revenue, direct and/or through profile data collection is easy and effective but the worst businessmodel for human sanity. I like that they at least offer an alternative for the ad viewing part through Youtube premium. I don't know about the US as streaming services seem to have catalogues orders of magnitude more extensive than over here in Europe, but compared to…
YouTube premium pricing is ridiculous. $14 a month for android and $19 a month for iOS? Get out of here How much could they possibly make from ads in a given month off a single user. Best case scenario with a user that watches YouTube like 4 hours a day 6 days a week and clicks through once every week. $4? Probably not even that. And yet somehow YouTube premium needs to be almost $230 a year for apple users? I bet th…
The family plan is 18€/month for 5 accounts, so about 3.60 pp. I honestly don't know if Premium has any features besides no ads and background play on mobile. There used to be a smidgen of exclusive content, but I think they gave up on that years ago.
I do not like Google's business model, nor their politics either. Thing is they do have a defacto monopoly on viable creator VoD. Yes, other services exist, but they are too fragmented to be viable.
So, do I perpetuate this situation by giving them sub money? Yes. But pragmatically I'm still not going to have my kids be subjected to ad barrages in the meantime, while rooting for true competition to emerge.