Nope. My adblocker is free.
No tf we don’t. YouTube ReVanced, YouTube Morphe, uBlock Origin
And sponsorblock.
For some reason either morphe and revanced are stuttering for me recently
Force close the app and clear the cache, that fixes it for me.
Same for me, revanced takes what feels like an entire minute or more before starting playback. And quality settings are not available. Is there a revanced community here on Lemmy?
I watched MST3K recently (a show that clearly denotes when classic network commercials would come on)
They mentioned commercials AFTER YouTube had already shown a 1 minute ad break.
We are late for a competitor.
Every day brings us closer to AD BS.
We pay YouTube not to shows ads, then youtubers imbed ads in videos. So we pay to watch ads.
Sponsorblock my friend. It’ll automatically skip embedded ads. https://sponsor.ajay.app/
Some companies like Hulu only show people ads that pay for them
What rule of acquisition is that?
Typical American company.
Next up, you pay a subscription AND you watch ads!
What, like cable television?
This is already happening with imbedded ads from content creators.
Amazon: “hey, stop copying me!”
Paying YouTube? Ads?
What’s an ad?
Yup, they actually get people to do that. Not me either but here we are.
Only on the webpage… without adblocker… so basically no protection.
I don’t pay and don’t get ads either. Stop being a sucker. Yes, I am fine with them going bankrupt if everyone would do that.
Fine with it? I’m waiting for it!
Google:
I hate my government for forcing Imgur to be blocked :(
Not to be that guy, but it’s actually Companies pay the running cost of YouTube (plus a little bit of pocket money for the creators whose videos you watch) so you can watch free of charge, in exchange for this they get to show you a video. I don’t like Google either and rob them of their income by using an adblocker. Though if nobody pays and nobody watches ads they might find even worse ways to pay the bills.
Google wants to get paid thrice for YouTube. That’s not okay.
I’ll consider allowing ads when they stop harvesting and selling data - until then, that data is my payment.
They don’t get to show ads, sell our data, and charge a subscription. I’m tired of paying twice for shit.
Yeah Google sucks, didn’t want to defend them but the business model in general. Companies should not be allowed to sell data. Them collecting your data as part of their ad business is one thing, but selling it shouldn’t be allowed imo.
This. If you want to collect analytics for in house decision making, merchandising, whatever, I say go for. But as soon as you start selling that data or the conclusions thereof, it becomes a currency, and if I’m paying that currency you better not be asking me for another.
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The meme is talking about YouTube Premium who’s main selling point is ad-free viewing
Need a tier for ad free, data collection free viewing.
Well, yeah. Companies pay youtube to show you ads on their platform; this lets youtube stay free for users while still being an unbelievably expensive operation (not debating the ethics just - that’s how the funding works). As an alternative, youtube gives you the option of paying them directly to buy the space ads would normally have bid on, and then blank it out. They get a steady monthly revenue stream, even if it’s less than they’d be making by selling that ad space, and you get no ads.
I rather pay for good entertainment than watch ads for bad entertainment.
What like… Charge influencers to upload their shit videos? Oh sweet baby Jesus, that would be amazing!
people paying YOUTUBE subscriptions are pretty much suckered into it,
