Someone at YouTube Needs Glasses: The Prophecy Has Been Fulfilled

Post by pitaj » Wed, Nov 26, 2025, 4:14 AM UTC

chrneu wrote: post #192

JAlexoid wrote: post #166

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And I pay for Premium, because each premium view is more valuable to the creators than the ad supported one.

for what it's worth, you could divide up your youtube premium membership cost and give that to 500 creators and they would see more revenue in their pocket than your premium watches get them. Premium viewcount is grossly over valued by the people who pay for it, because they need to justify their sunk cost. I doubt most content creators even track it because the difference is minimal. We're talking a few bucks a mont…

Post by its_ethan » Wed, Nov 26, 2025, 4:17 AM UTC

rmunn wrote: post #215

HDThoreaun wrote: post #100

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What deal? What contract? I'm serious. Show me in the Youtube Terms of Service where it says that blocking ads is against the contract. I've looked. Carefully. There is no such language there .

Post by HDThoreaun » Wed, Nov 26, 2025, 4:18 AM UTC

baumy wrote: post #299

HDThoreaun wrote: post #260

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This is juvenile nonsense. I can point directly to the law in whatever jurisdiction you care to name that makes doing what you describe illegal. You cannot point to anything that makes it illegal to view videos on a publicly accessible website without watching the ads that usually play before them.

Post by ZekeSulastin » Wed, Nov 26, 2025, 4:18 AM UTC

jason_oster wrote: post #306

chrneu wrote: post #198

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There are two apps called "DeArrow" and SponsorBlock that basically everyone should be using. DeArrow replaces thumbnails and titles with crowd sourced versions. I can't use youtube without it anymore. Usually the titles get replaced with stuff like "How to build a table" instead of "Watch the world explode as I try to make a table!!!!!!!!!!!!". Same with thumbnails. No longer are they over-saturated close up AI gene…

Neither of these are available on Apple TV. Otherwise, you make a good suggestion; install them where available.

Post by estimator7292 » Wed, Nov 26, 2025, 4:21 AM UTC

tavavex wrote: post #231

charcircuit wrote: post #172

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It may reduce decision paralysis and they are hoping their recommendation is good enough.

I honestly think that at some point, there will be no recommendations page. You'll open YouTube and it'll start autoplaying the video that they (or the advertisers) think you should see. You'll be able to skip to other videos from there, like on short-form content platforms. Likes and subscriptions will dictate how likely it'll be that you'll see a video by that creator in the future. Search and other "outdated" feat…