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Advertiser exodus from X gathers pace with 26% ‘planning to cut spending’
(www.theguardian.com)
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YouTube is terrible without an ad blocker. The current business model is: bait users with free entertaining content, insert reasonable level of ads, stockholders get mad there isn't exponential growth, really annoy users until they subscribe. I get that companies need to make money, but this cycle seems to be faster than ever now.
YouTube is a great experience with a paid subscription. It’s the streaming service I use the most and I find the monthly cost to be worth the content I watch there. It’s also an even more effective way to fight the disruptive influence advertising has on our online communities and helps fund the creators on the platform that I enjoy.
Everyone should make their own choices, I’m just highlighting one of those choices that works well for me.
Thanks for contributing! What is the difference between your experience and mine (with an ad blocker)?
For me, it was about being able to watch yt on my tv and mobile devices which are not able to block ads as easily as a desktop browser. I have a pihole on my home network, but it hasn't been able to block yt ads for a few years.
I've been using this to automatically skip ads on my Chromecasts (youtube ads and in video segments) for the past year.
https://github.com/gabe565/CastSponsorSkip
It's literally sponsor block but for all of my Chromecasts