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Mobile Ad Blocker Will No Longer Stop YouTube's Ads

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Re: Mobile Ad Blocker Will No Longer Stop YouTube's Ads

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Post by throwaway5959 »

mmastrac wrote: post #29
throwaway5959 wrote: post #28

YouTube Premium (which avoids ads and still pays creators, plus offers downloads) is $14/month. Put another way, let’s say the average Hacker News commentator makes $150k/year or $75/hour, that’s less than 15 minutes of work. Just reeks of “I don’t believe tipping is fair to workers, that’s why I don’t tip.” Edit: downvoted in less than a minute, haha

Why are you conflating the extremely broken tipping culture/minimum wage system in the US and a multi-billion-dollar company's revenue strategy?

Why are people unwilling to pay creators (in attention or dollars) for making the content they watch? It’s the same with piracy. It was one thing when the content was simply unavailable, now most content is available via a streaming service for an incredibly cheap per monthly cost.

Re: Mobile Ad Blocker Will No Longer Stop YouTube's Ads

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Post by thaumasiotes »

bambax wrote: post #21
998244353 wrote: post #10

> In October, YouTube made it nearly impossible to watch its website while using an ad blocker. Did they revert that? I saw those for maybe a week. After that, I assume uBlock Origin had already worked around that. Probably the same will happen with mobile clients.

Same here. I don't know about mobile, but on desktop with uBlock Origin I see absolutely zero ads.

I've never seen ads either, though I did see a total of one message saying I wasn't allowed to watch a video because I had an ad blocker.

Lately I've been seeing videos suddenly skip four or five seconds forward occasionally; it's possible that's related to an anti-adblocking effort of some kind.

Re: Mobile Ad Blocker Will No Longer Stop YouTube's Ads

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Post by NegativeLatency »

jiehong wrote: post #27
BadHumans wrote: post #7

Just use NewPipe. It's just a better Youtube client even if it had ads. https://newpipe.net/

Equivalent on iOS? Just hoping I’ll be able to use ublock origin on Firefox once it’s available on an I dependent App Store…

Not a direct equal but https://github.com/iv-org/invidious is nice

Re: Mobile Ad Blocker Will No Longer Stop YouTube's Ads

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Post by Akronymus »

998244353 wrote: post #10

> In October, YouTube made it nearly impossible to watch its website while using an ad blocker. Did they revert that? I saw those for maybe a week. After that, I assume uBlock Origin had already worked around that. Probably the same will happen with mobile clients.

It mostly impacted ABP users, because UBO just has a much faster turnaround on bypassing adblocker-blockers.

Re: Mobile Ad Blocker Will No Longer Stop YouTube's Ads

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Post by zootboy »

throwaway5959 wrote: post #31
mmastrac wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why are you conflating the extremely broken tipping culture/minimum wage system in the US and a multi-billion-dollar company's revenue strategy?

Why are people unwilling to pay creators (in attention or dollars) for making the content they watch? It’s the same with piracy. It was one thing when the content was simply unavailable, now most content is available via a streaming service for an incredibly cheap per monthly cost.

I pay the creators I care about, but I do it through Patreon, not Youtube. Of those $14 of Youtube subscription fees, approximately $0 would go to the creators I care about. If Youtube made some guarantee that the money I spent would only go to the creators I watch, I'd subscribe instantly.

Re: Mobile Ad Blocker Will No Longer Stop YouTube's Ads

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Post by cactusplant7374 »

nkozyra wrote: post #19
latexr wrote: post #2

> We want to emphasize that our terms don’t allow third-party apps to turn off ads because that prevents the creator from being rewarded for viewership, and Ads on YouTube help support creators and let billions of people around the world use the streaming service. Ah yes, it’s all about the creators, you see. The money Google makes from it has nothing to do with it, no siree. As we all know, Google’s magnanimity alwa…

I think Youtube got caught offguard a bit by creators making in-video ads and sponsorships a few years ago. They don't get a cut of that, and it softens the blow of people who do use Adblock.

I use SponsorBlock for those. The issue I have is that YouTube and sponsored creators want to take up so much of my time. YouTube videos are already too long and filled with boilerplate nonsense.
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