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Post by MBCook »

somsak2 wrote: post #259
johnnyanmac wrote: post #27

And the chase begins. I pay for premium so this won't affect me, but it's always interesting seeing the efforts even a trillion dollar company has to go through to fight against a relative few very determined "hackers" underground.

It's not really a relative few, most estimates place ad blocking usage among web users between 25-45%. Since YT is somewhere around 10% of overall Google revenue, you're looking at up to a 5% increase in total revenue just based off of this, with basically ~all of that flowing into profit since there's not much cost. Pretty huge. https://backlinko.com/ad-blockers-users https://www.insiderintelligence.com/insights/ad-…

As more people block ads, revenue falls. So companies stick on more ads to make up for it.

That annoys more people, so they learn how to add block (or ask their friends for help).

It’s a vicious cycle and it’s part of why the ads are just getting worse.

We’ve only found three income models for web content:

1. Cover it with ads 2. Sell it/paywall 3. Patronage pays for it

That’s basically it. People don’t want to see ads. And don’t want to pay.

I won’t view ads plus I won’t pay equals almost everything goes.

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Post by MBCook »

Plasmoid wrote: post #309

Gabe Newell said it best. Piracy is a service problem. Ad blockers are a response to terrible ads.

They already offer a service for people who don’t like ads. It’s called YouTube premium. And it works perfectly.

“I want better service but don’t want to pay” is not a customer you’re going to make a lot of money chasing.

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Post by thiht »

philsnow wrote: post #278
SteveNuts wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm pretty sure pihole doesn't block YouTube ads, they seem to be served server side but I could be wrong

Paramount+ on apple tv just crashes immediately for me (before even the profile picker) when I have the apple tv using my pi-hole as its dns server. It’s not even the biggest reason why PP is my least favorite streaming platform, since I have a workaround (cast from phone, which for some reason works).

I’m amazed some people would even consider subscribing to Paramount+… why? It’s yet another streaming platform ; arriving way too late in the game, and they don’t even have an interesting catalog. They just seem dead on arriving.

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Post by erinnh »

philistine wrote: post #286
thaumasiotes wrote: post #269

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Youtube-dl (well, yt-dlp, the non-dead version) will ignore the ads.

yeah but how do you setup a one-stop-shop solution to download the new videos from channels you follow?

Personally, I use Tubearchivist.

There are others though.

https://github.com/tubearchivist/tubearchivist

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Post by raydiatian »

raydiatian wrote: post #253
lemoncookiechip wrote: post #68

Gorhill (uBO's developer) is in the comment section urging people to not use these types of unverified fixes: https://x.com/gorhill/status/1713305785659211991

https://twitter.com/gorhill/status/1713305785659211991 Fixed it for you.

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Post by postalrat »

mvdtnz wrote: post #183
Diti wrote: post #165

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don’t know about OP, but, personally, the reason I don’t subscribe to premium is because they get aggressive on ads on purpose (waves of unskippable ads followed by a YouTube Premium subscription request the day after), which I believe is a dark pattern. I would have been okay with paying for a subscription if it was to support the website or its creators – but I take manipulation attempts very badly.

Premium does support creators. Views from premium subscribers are worth significantly more than views from freeloaders.

Premium should give you an allowance to tip channels so that you know what the subscription is worth for content creators.

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Post by t-writescode »

lacrimacida wrote: post #290
cjmcqueen wrote: post #240

I like YouTube Premium. It's worth it. For a bunch of tech people... Wouldn't we see more people wanting to pay for software, a service and intellectual property?

How much from youtube premium goes to creators?

According to LTT, it's a *very* good option for them.

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Post by SoullessSilent »

Thorrez wrote: post #305
depereo wrote: post #262

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I had Red through my google play music subscription but then they turned music into a YouTube nonsense app that removed features I liked and tripled the costs. I'd subscribe to YouTube premium if it didn't bundle a music subscription and associated cost.

>tripled the costs. According to this article, when Youtube red was introduced in October 2015, it was $9.99/month. It's now $13.99/month. That's a 40% increase. If you adjust $9.99 in October 2015 for inflation to September 2023, it's $12.93/month. So inflation-adjusted, the price increased 8.2% from 2015 to now. https://www.theverge.com/2015/10/21/9566973/youtube-red-ad-f... https://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/cpicalc.pl?…

Your calculation doesnt take into account increases in income. As mine has not increased since before 2015 then that would still be a 40% increase to me.

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Post by philsnow »

thiht wrote: post #323
philsnow wrote: post #278

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Paramount+ on apple tv just crashes immediately for me (before even the profile picker) when I have the apple tv using my pi-hole as its dns server. It’s not even the biggest reason why PP is my least favorite streaming platform, since I have a workaround (cast from phone, which for some reason works).

I’m amazed some people would even consider subscribing to Paramount+… why? It’s yet another streaming platform ; arriving way too late in the game, and they don’t even have an interesting catalog. They just seem dead on arriving.

Trek. That's it.

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Post by lithos »

mvdtnz wrote: post #92
_huayra_ wrote: post #14

Maybe it's just A/B testing, but I got the "3 strikes and no more video playback" thing, which this DOM element blocking doesn't work around it seems :( After years of procrastinating, I'm finally gonna get around to setting up a basic homelab to run pihole. Thanks, youtube execs and bean counters, for kicking my lazy ass into gear on this! In a way, I kinda wish that ads worked as well as youtube suggestions. If one…

Mate if you get so much value from YouTube that you'll jump through these hoops just to use it without ads, why not just subscribe to premium? Personally it's by far my most bang-for-buck service.

It's more about enjoying the challenge and nerdiness of defeating an anti-adblocker at this point, I would imagine. Also worth mentioning that Google's ad service is such a security vulnerability that even the FBI recommends an ad blocker.

Google is fully in the right for blocking ad blockers, banning users, or whatever. Might even end up having some profitable years for those bans.

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