Easier solution: You can get YouTube Premium for $2 a month if you just happen to be in Argentinia while you sign up, even if you are using a US credit card to pay.
They’ve been trying to stop this recently FYI.
How do you know that?
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Check your credit card statement. It’s $13-19 now and steadily rising every 6 months.
And that’s on top of the in-content sponsorships and merchandise most creators are selling.
Nah, happy to steal from Google, the creators are fine.
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#423Earlier quoted context omitted.
Google keeps tracking your behavior for advertising purposes. This defeats completely any reason to give them money.
The primary benefit that many pay for is to not see ads and to support creators you enjoy, not to avoid tracking.
Why not use an ad blocker?
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#424MODS
It is “protobuf” with a T, not “profobuf”. I know the typo is in the headline on the original article, but it is bad to spread it, and it looks bad on the front page here.
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#425Earlier quoted context omitted.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oV3s_sESnmE Louis Rossmann: > If you gave a creator even $1 as a donation that is more than they will make from you watching years of ads on their content.
The 2023 payout seems to be "$18 for every 1,000 ad views". If I watch a creator once per week, with 2 ads, he would earn $1.80 in a year. I just don't feel like paying 100 different youtube channels $1-$2 each every year.
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#426Earlier quoted context omitted.
If you don't consume ads, please do not use any ad-supported service, that's the easiest thing to do.
I'd rather use their services and block their ads, if I'm honest. Ad supporters talk like blocking ads is literal theft , which is absolutely laughable. It's further away from theft than piracy, which is also in no way literal theft . If I'm watching traditional non-demand television, and I go to the bathroom or change the channel during an ad, am I stealing from the network or the show? Hell no, that's ridiculous.
Theft? Of course it's theft, if I reduce to what is happening - you're using their services for free with no compensation. That is the definition of theft.
I would agree with you it's ok if there was no way to _otherwise_ pay for the service. If they push a only ads-supported version, and I have no choice but see ads, and I don't consent to the impact of ads on my brain, it makes a case for blocking ads being ethically correct.
But since there is a choice on how to pay, I find reasoning is no longer ethically right. You can choice to pay with your attention and brain, or to pay with hard cold cash, so the argument of ads being shoved down your brain no longer holds. You can choose to not see ads and pay for the service, and you chose to steal.
And you can make the argument that stealing is ok since you steal from the bad guys, but then you don't get to complain when others may steal from you - we're all "the bad guy" for somebody else
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#427I just subscribe to YouTube premium to support my favorite application out there. I learn so much from the people who spend hours and hours making videos every month that I am more than happy to pay a measly $13 or whatever it is every month to YouTube.
Give your money to the creators directly. It will be better for everyone.
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#428I just subscribe to YouTube premium to support my favorite application out there. I learn so much from the people who spend hours and hours making videos every month that I am more than happy to pay a measly $13 or whatever it is every month to YouTube.
This post is more of a technical breakdown of things, not some sort of advocacy for not paying content creators:
> Disclaimer: I want to support content creators, so to be fair, after a few months of blocking YouTube ads, I am now paying for YouTube Premium; Just because I can break something, doesn’t mean I need to.
Did you even open the article?
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#429I've been MITM'ing my traffic to, among other things, strip ads and rewrite pages with things like custom CSS, ever since I discovered The Proxomitron over 2 decades ago. It does tend to get me profiled as a "bot" by CloudFlare and such, but there are not-so-trivial ways around that too. It also shows why things like remote attestation are hazardous for user freedom.
> The Proxomitron Googling this, development ended in 2004? An informed summary of the current state of play would be interesting, since a lot of different "continuations" of it seem to be around. Also, is it Windows-only? (I've been casually looking for a simple proxy that would enable injection of local links into remote content.)
> Windows-only
Can’t Wine help with this?
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#430Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'd rather use their services and block their ads, if I'm honest. Ad supporters talk like blocking ads is literal theft , which is absolutely laughable. It's further away from theft than piracy, which is also in no way literal theft . If I'm watching traditional non-demand television, and I go to the bathroom or change the channel during an ad, am I stealing from the network or the show? Hell no, that's ridiculous.
Theft? Of course it's theft, if I reduce to what is happening - you're using their services for free with no compensation. That is the definition of theft. I would agree with you it's ok if there was no way to _otherwise_ pay for the service. If they push a only ads-supported version, and I have no choice but see ads, and I don't consent to the impact of ads on my brain, it makes a case for blocking ads being ethical…
No. Theft would mean they no longer have the service once I've taken it.
Me taking a copy of Shrek 2 at the local store and not paying for it is theft: the store can no longer benefit from Shrek 2.
Google can re-send the exact same bytes to someone else. All I've costed them is what it costs to send those bytes over. But then, would you consider going into a store, loitering for two hours, taking the sellers attention (therefore, costing them time that they cannot use to sell things to other customers) then leaving without buying anything theft ? Most reasonable people would say no. We'd all agree it's a dick move, but since corporations are not people, it doesn't matter.