Mildly Infuriating @lemmy.world Scrubbles @poptalk.scrubbles.tech 1 yr. ago

Youtube Depends on Ads to work

Seriously launched the app (by accident today) and what is this? They're trying to play the victim from the big bad ad blockers saying all they're doing is trying to show an ad at the beginning of video, and then I see all of this crap.

This was after a non-skippable ad at the beginning followed by a totally real "survey" that it wanted me to fill out, one interruption so far in the content, and now three ads on the screen. That's 45% of the screen dedicated to ads. Freaking ridiculous. "But please turn off your ad blocker".

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Google, currently embroiled in an anti-trust lawsuit for having too much control over the internet, is pleading poverty. How amusing.
- Aw come on, Google is just a little down on their luck is all. Besides they only made close to $300,000,000,000 this year. Barely enough to put food on the table! /s
Nikel and dime till it's a crime
Up to 80% of the screen without causing seizures!
Ads pay miniscule amounts per view.. I've heard it said the £12/month sub is about hundreds of times what they get from ad revenue per user. So they spam them everywhere.. the more ads the better.

Which means people block the ads because they're obnoxious, and they make nothing..
- which in turn makes them add more ads, which makes more people block them, which makes them add more ads... and the cycle continues.
  
  Honestly if they stuck, and I mean actually stuck to "You know what, one ad, beginning of the video, unskippable, and the rest of the video (and content below, and everything) will be ad free until you start a new video - I'd do it. I'd honestly be okay with that. But it's just so overbearing, everywhere is meant to draw your eye to ads, so no, I'll do everything I can to get around them.
  
  Or if they went back to their old advertisement model, remember when you used to get in line advertisements that played at the bottom of the video. I remember those they weren't intrusive to the video content and you still saw them. It wasn't obnoxious as hell and I would bd ok with that
- That's one of the reasons I'm ok paying for premium. Creators get paid more.
  
  Or you could pay for Nebula instead of the company causing the problem. Or you could contribute to their Patreon.
- Depends on the ad and how much you use the premium...
  
  I've watched so much they would've absolutely made more money showing me ads (based on my best guess for how much margin they should make on ads, which I think I can estimate pretty well, vs premium as I know less about costs etc. there) but I guess it's not the case for everyone
Well, since they started with this adblock shame nonsense, I can tell you that my ad revenue has been in steady decline, despite views being the same or higher than before this racketeering went into effect.

So whatever they think they're doing is backfiring on content creators.

Google literally has to ruin everything it touches by constantly trying to change things.
Firefox and uBlock works great, here. Not only do you not get ads, but it cuts down on the tracking and metrics a lot, too. Oh, and you can play stuff in the background. You know, because you own your devices and you can do whatever client side stuff you want, right?
if you're on android do yourself the favour of downloading Newpipe Sponsorblock and just import your subscriptions.
- If you're on a ~~rooted~~ Android, ReVanced is a great option. It patches the YT app to behave like Premium, removes a lot of annoyances and integrates SponsorBlock and the Dislike API.
  
  You don't at all need to root your phone to run ReVanced. You can easily patch and install without root.
- The sponsor block part doesn't quite work for me
Is the Simpsons good again?
- It is not.
  
  How much of it have you watched in recent years? What happened on the episodes you watched?
  
  It sure is funny how many people that haven't actually watched the show since like season 6 still sound off about it like they have any idea what its currently like.
  
  I second this. They're trying so hard to be inoffensive it's eroding the satirical stereotypes that every character is supposed to be. It's a hollow shell of what it once was.
- Haven't watched the show in years but according to the video there are more standout episodes in recent years - he actually made me want to watch the new season.
- I think is Ok, I really liked the episode of Marge accepting that Baby Bart is growing up. The NFT/Snowpiercer part of the Halloween special was also good.
- Maybe try some episodes and see for yourself?
  
  YouTuber 20 minute opinion drops, sorry, "video essays" are a dime a dozen and the vast majority have nothing notable to say. Better to just try things for yourself and make up your own mind.
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I got youtube revanced the moment youtube started playing an ad every 2 minutes. Not even exaggeration either, literally every 2 minutes.
- That was probably a year ago it's every 12 seconds now, unskippable 3 minute ads.
  
  Dear god
- That's horrible. Moved from vanced to revanced the moment it was properly working with the manager tool. Had the chance to look at the stock app a couple of days ago. It's not even about the ad-blocking anymore. The stock app is borderline unusable.
  
  Also fun fact: Youtube managed to pull off a cobra-effect with their recent fight on adblocking. That was a fun realisation when I heard of that.
I feel extremely uncertain because there are still people who don't use Vanced
- Unfortunately ios exists
  
  there is youtube++, haven't tried it because i have an android, but it should have a lot of the features of vanced. And with iOS16 finally (kind of) allowing third party apps, it's not even that hard to install
  
  uYou++ works great on my iPad, even auto skips the “this video is brought to you by” bs.
  
  Unforced error ngl
- SmartTube Next as well.
That was a good Super Eyepatch Wolf vid.
I can't even tell the difference between components. It's a very confusing ui.
To be honest even without ad block most of the videos I watch have almost no ads. Probably because of the type of humor involved but still. Doesn't hurt to had the ad-blocker
Okay then show the ads to the majority of people who accept them by not running any blockers and leave me alone.
Here's my wallet when I dont buy dumb subscription
I just use libretube
Here's what it looks like with premium.
- Here's what it looks with revanced.
- Here's what my wallet looks like when I dont buy dumb subscriptions

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