thats why i block them all.
they aint making money off of annoying me.
I use Firefox with uBlock Origin and SponsorBlock. I never see any ads on youtube.
Ads didn’t make 10 billion, Google charged advertisers 10 billion. IMO ads have gone so pervasive they’ve hit a point of diminishing returns. They’re everywhere, we hate them, and those 10 billion spent would have to bring many more billions in sales to be an attractive service.
I can’t wait for the ad bubble to burst, as advertisers understand they’re just giving money away to megaadvertisers for paltry conversions.
I'm an admin in Google Ad Manager for a few hundred sites. Saying that to say I've read a lot of their documentation. They have a great graph showing this very concept. Less ads, less money, happy users. More ads, more money, unhappy users. They're aware. They aren't pouring the poison. They're designing the pitcher and selling different size cups.
Ads?
Yeah, what the fuck is the article talking about? I haven't seen an ad on YouTube in years.
What youtube ads, I haven't seen one in years, fortunately.
I have to see them at school all the time, because our ~~teacher's~~ teachers don't bother installing adblockers.
teacher's
Now I'm doubly disappointed in your teachers.
Woopsie! That's what 7 years of Dutch grammar does to you.
The plural -s in Dutch only gets an apostrophe if the stem word ends on an open vowel. So it's 'Maria's huis' but 'Piets boek' and also 'Jantjes boek'. So even in Dutch this'd be incorrect ;)
Mine is capitalising everything because of German.
At least German is consistent, unlike English where every so-called "rule" nearly has more exceptions than places it applies. As a native speaker I'm always amazed that anyone manages to learn our train wreck of a language.
Same. We should all collectively abandon ship and just learn Esperanto or something.
Use Firefox Mobile and ublock origin it will block ads on mobile
Me neither, as I don't use YouTube at all.
And yet they aggressively demonitize channels.
Line go up
I mean they don’t want to pay the creators thats abundantly clear.
I don't hate them. I think 80% should go back to the creators though.
Pro-tip: Watch youtube on firefox/etc with a bunch of ad blockers. No ads.
Ublock origin is enough :p
Fortunately LibreTube and NewPipe exist 👍
Yeah. What ads?
I'd love to know their cost of storing all the YT videos and serving them.
On desktop: uBlock origin (Vivaldi or Firefox). On mobile: Newpipe and AdAway (VPN mode, or rooted phone).
Firefox + Ublock also work on mobile.
On Android.
Yeah, I kinda assumed the people who cared about these sorts of things wouldn't be using an iPhone.
EDIT: Not reading any of the replies, so enjoy your circle jerk.
Use the Brave browser and you won't get any ads. Glorious.
Then you only have to endure the ignominy of using a browser from a homophobic anti-vaxxer
A bad person can create a good product. It's that simple.
Also, I love that you're self-righteously typing this out on a computer produced by slave labor, likely involving kids.
You're better than me for sure.
A bad person can create a good product sure, doesn't mean we need to support it.
I don't even think he's that bad. The worst thing he did was create JavaScript, which is largely fixed now, and the second worst is donate to an anti-LGBT group with his own money. As CEO of Mozilla, he led a very diverse group, diverse enough to kick him out once they found out about his donation.
I personally wish he was back at Mozilla instead of the nonsense leaders they've had since he left. I certainly don't agree with his political views, but he built a great organization and I think Mozilla would be in a better place with him at the helm.
I don't use Brave as my main browser because I think Firefox is still worth supporting as an independent browser engine, but Brave is my backup if I need a chromium browser.
Never use a browser that aggressively advertise itself.
Yup, it's my backup if I need a chromium browser for something. I just don't engage with the BAT nonsense and it's about as good as a chromium browser can get IMO.
Firefox w/ uBlock Origin is my main though, mostly because I want to support independent browser engines.
Ublock Origin + Firefox fork :3
Also a good option, but I like that Brave's native adblocker works better without addons.
Still need a good strategy for blocking ads on my TV. Mostly watching YouTube through a Chromecast so I can control it from my phone
PiHole can mostly block ads on propetiary software
Not YouTube because the ads come from the same "source", so blocking that DNS would mean blocking the actual video, too. That's my week understanding of it, at least.
Subbed to find out what your month understanding will be
My true fans will hang around for my year understanding.
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