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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 »

zootboy wrote: post #38
throwaway5959 wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/6306276?hl=en#:~:t....

“Revenue from YouTube Premium membership fees is distributed to video creators based on how much members watch your content. As with our advertising business, the majority of the revenue will go to our partners.“

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

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Post by pixxel »

If YT implemented a p2p option then I wouldn’t need to use their bandwidth and block ads. The world’s video library belongs to all. If you want to act as gatekeeper to all the knowledge so you can profit then we’ll work around it. But that’s just my opinion, man.

I watch hobbyists who upload interesting things just to share information, like how YT used to be. You can gatekeep ‘content creators’ like Jake Paul behind a paywall for all I give a shit.

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

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Post by dyingkneepad »

BadHumans wrote: post #7

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

I tried using it for a while, but it always took forever to start loading the videos. It was significantly slower to the point of being annoying. I gave up.

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

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Post by Workaccount2 »

_fat_santa wrote: post #39

Personally I just pay for Youtube Premium. Yes it's $10/month but I found that if you watch alot of Youtube, it's well worth it. Now anytime I'm at friends house and an ad comes up before a video I'm always like "oh right Youtube has ads"

I'll never understand why people don't think twice paying for the array of streaming services (netflix, hulu, disney, apple, etc.) but the thought of paying for a service with creator profit sharing (and a majority share at that) is unthinkable.

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

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Post by Workaccount2 »

pixxel wrote: post #42

If YT implemented a p2p option then I wouldn’t need to use their bandwidth and block ads. The world’s video library belongs to all. If you want to act as gatekeeper to all the knowledge so you can profit then we’ll work around it. But that’s just my opinion, man. I watch hobbyists who upload interesting things just to share information, like how YT used to be. You can gatekeep ‘content creators’ like Jake Paul behind…

You are delusional if you think ISP's will just lay down and take it when every one of their subscribers becomes a video CDN.

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

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Post by extraduder_ire »

cmeacham98 wrote: post #23
avtolik wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Does it show the same video adds as YouTube?

No, but this is entirely YouTube's fault as they don't offer any sort of API or method for third party apps to display ads.

I'm sure they don't out of concern about ad-fraud, but it would be funny if they had such an API, demanded third-parties used it, and didn't charge for/track those ad views.

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

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Post by Workaccount2 »

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

I agree with your statement, but the tipping thing is totally unrelated. Youtube pays creators for the content they produce (via ad-share or premium sub share). There is no tipping in the loop here.

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

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Post by zb1plus »

Workaccount2 wrote: post #46
pixxel wrote: post #42

If YT implemented a p2p option then I wouldn’t need to use their bandwidth and block ads. The world’s video library belongs to all. If you want to act as gatekeeper to all the knowledge so you can profit then we’ll work around it. But that’s just my opinion, man. I watch hobbyists who upload interesting things just to share information, like how YT used to be. You can gatekeep ‘content creators’ like Jake Paul behind…

You are delusional if you think ISP's will just lay down and take it when every one of their subscribers becomes a video CDN.

ISPs got a ton of free money from the government to set up internet infrastructure and have been milking taxpayer money without improving access significantly or reducing costs. They can accept it or get nationalized imo

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

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Post by yjftsjthsd-h »

_fat_santa wrote: post #39

Personally I just pay for Youtube Premium. Yes it's $10/month but I found that if you watch alot of Youtube, it's well worth it. Now anytime I'm at friends house and an ad comes up before a video I'm always like "oh right Youtube has ads"

It's funny; I pay for lots of things, even other streaming services in order to not have ads, but I absolutely refuse to give YouTube a single penny. The difference is that every other service made the deal up front - pay X for content, pay Y for content and no ads, and here's the website and here are some mobile apps - while YouTube started out free for all with some really minor ads that you could block if you wanted and loads of 3rd party apps plus the website and 1st-party mobile apps, and then over time removed features from the free version and cranked the ads up to 11. Basically, if your selling point is "we made the free version worse" I don't want to reward that behavior.
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