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Re: YouTube might terminate your access if not profitable for Google

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Unfortunately I watch YouTube on a smart TV. I have no way of blocking their adverts. I can only wait for skip button and skip.

Would something like pihole not work in this case?

Let me try that and see how it goes. Let me go and install it.

Re: YouTube might terminate your access if not profitable for Google

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post #90

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Would something like pihole not work in this case?

Let me try that and see how it goes. Let me go and install it.

Pihole does not block YouTube Ads. You can use Smart Youtube TV to watch ad free YouTube on your TV.

https://github.com/yuliskov/SmartYouTubeTV

Re: YouTube might terminate your access if not profitable for Google

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Let me try that and see how it goes. Let me go and install it.

Pihole does not block YouTube Ads. You can use Smart Youtube TV to watch ad free YouTube on your TV. https://github.com/yuliskov/SmartYouTubeTV

Thank you lavios. I will install it later.

Re: YouTube might terminate your access if not profitable for Google

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This might be actually a good thing. Say that you are a user, which uploads a LOT of large videos that almost nobody is watching, apart from your small cabal, and you restrict ads on them (AFAIK was possible in past, not sure if it is now). In such case, you get quite good service for free, and you cost YouTube quite a lot of money for storage. I see that YouTube have following options: 1.) Show more ads elsewhere (s…

I'm worried that while this sounds plausible at first it also seems to run directly counter to how many of the most popular channels on YouTube got their start. Most times when I've been a subscriber to a channel before it took off, the channel always begins with a small, tight knit group of fans that appreciate the content being created. The channel owner may not even run ads and sometimes doesn't have the sense or…

> we will end up with a YouTube entirely populated by channels that just seek to maximize engagement at the expense of quality

Just like Medium did (and does). This will probably kill the plataform success...

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