YouTube is going to stop you from using ad blockers
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YouTube is going to stop you from using ad blockers
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Re: YouTube is going to stop you from using ad blockers
#2Or so they think
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#4good luck with that one
they can't even figure out how to block yt-dl
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#5good luck with that one they can't even figure out how to block yt-dl
Can't figure out how to, or just haven't bothered to?
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#6good luck with that one they can't even figure out how to block yt-dl
Worst case, yt-dlp will "pretend to watch the ad." Slower, sure. But I will happily decouple the downloading from the watching to avoid ads.
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#7There is nothing on youtube I need, and I am prepared to walk away from it if I'm made to watch ads. At no point did I ever like the content enough to watch ads, particularly multiple jammed in at inopportune times. They will never get a cent from me, and there is nothing they can do to change that.
I like music. I mainly use it for music on my phone at the moment. Spotify is a better business case if I'm going to have to pay for something to solve that issue.
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#8I'm way more likely to move to PeerTube than YouTube Premium, sorry Tom/Rory.
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#9That’s a great way to give market share to another platform.. perhaps a critical market share.
Result: 5 years increased profits, afterwards: google is finito.
YouTube is all they got at this point
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#10Does anybody know what currently the most expensive part about YouTube is?
Storage
Bandwidth
Processing/encoding