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the amount of ads on youtube has grown exponentially and i highly doubt this was because of profitability issues.
In a hypothetical world without adblockers, wouldn't YouTube need to show a lower amount of ads per person to make the same amount of revenue?
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Leeching implies that there is party that is being inflicted damage. Alphabet makes $60B profit a year.
The party that is being inflicted damage are the creators who don't make any money from producing content for you.
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You're not just paying Youtube/Google for the ad, you're paying the content creators as well. You can always buy the music directly from artists if you don't like Spotify's revenue model. Or ditch Spotify and use the free Youtube Music subscription you get with premium, maybe combined it'd be worth the $14 to you.
Youtube music is actually pretty remarkable. I'm a jazz musician. One of the remarkable features of YouTube is that if you're looking for a particular recording of a jazz tune (e.g. Lou Donaldson's The Masquerade Is Over, on the Blues Walk album, 1953), it's just there. The depth of the collection is quite amazing. And as an added bonus, if you subscribe you get no ads on youtube! :-P
I hope they get a big fat EU fine for (illegal here) joint sales.
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At this point, I consider blocking ads to be a moral obligation. By giving in, you enable Youtube to abuse users further
I have zero problem paying for premium. I like it when the products I like, you know, survive.
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I'd buy it, but $14/m is way too much for no ads imo. Especially since this is a "free" service where the justification for me paying X$/m is because i have to offset the ads i would have otherwise watched. You're (Youtube, not OP hah) telling me i provided $14/m in ad revenue? Of course not. I'd insta-buy if i could just pay to skip any ads i actually would have watched. Give me a stat showing me how many ads i miss…
> You're telling me i provided $14/m in ad revenue? Of course not. Do you really think Google just set the price arbitrarily? That would be surprising. My impression has always been that ad free tiers are actually less profitable for video providers.
No, not arbitrarily. But that $14/mo bundles in the price of other services as well, namely Youtube Music. Youtube Music doesn't cost Google nothing, so obviously $14/mo isn't what they're getting from people in ad revenue. A comparable music subscription from spotify costs $11/mo, so subtract that from $14/mo. $3/mo is a fair estimate for what they expect to get for showing ads.
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At this point, I consider blocking ads to be a moral obligation. By giving in, you enable Youtube to abuse users further
I think this is a bad take, because YouTube is a rare web service that allows you to just pay them directly. Then you aren’t the product anymore
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And no ads in between of meditation videos No ads when you are driving - since you can't skip them
Maybe don’t watch YouTube while you’re driving?
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At this point, I consider blocking ads to be a moral obligation. By giving in, you enable Youtube to abuse users further
Avoiding using services whose business practices you disagree with feels like a bigger moral obligation but what do I know?
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…
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All this performative righteousness is only going to end up hurting your cause in the long term. If a major site offers an ad-free option, and people refuse to take it, what does it tell the executives? What does it tell other publishers who are considering their monetization options? How do you think a business should respond to users that neither refuse to watch ads nor pay, can't be bargained with (see above), but…
They still mine your data…