Those poor suckers. I don't think I've seen an advertisement on YouTube in something like five years.
Edit: And I sure as hell ain't paying Google either.
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I have no issue in paying creators with my YouTube Premium subscription. What annoys me is seeing creators feed the algorithm with “regular posts” or create filler videos for sponsors when they have nothing to say.
That and seeing explainer videos from someone who learned something five minutes before recording… the number of copycats and regurgitating the same news content is depressing.
The same goes for the epidemic of faceless AI videos narrating generic content… horrible. The “don't recommend channel” must be worn off by now, from me alone. :-)
Fantastic exceptions from talented creators make it worth it, so I am happy.
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.
Reminder that Firefox on mobile also has ublock origin and other add ons that improve the experience.
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.
Influencer sponsorships, especially for beauty influencers, have already been declining. Companies realize that these influencers are just posting ads now and people don't believe their "honest opinion" anymore. So it's a mystery to me why companies still pay so much money for regular online ads.
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.
EDIT: Woops, got confused myself
The plural -s in Dutch only gets an apostrophe if the stem word ends on an open vowel. So it's cavia-cavia's on the one hand, but kikker-kikkers on the other (and la[de]-lades). So even in Dutch this'd be incorrect ;)
Mine is capitalising everything because of German.
Not Everything, just Nouns.
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.
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Ads?
Yeah, what the fuck is the article talking about? I haven't seen an ad on YouTube in years.
Did u mean "tax for the poor and stupid"?
And yet they aggressively demonitize channels.
Line go up
I mean they don’t want to pay the creators thats abundantly clear.
Pro-tip: Watch youtube on firefox/etc with a bunch of ad blockers. No ads.
It really is a pro tip, when installing more than one ad blocker is just gonna make for a worse experience, never mind the fact that it's going to make the ad blcokers themselves actually not work the way they're supposed to.
Fortunately LibreTube and NewPipe exist 👍
Yeah. What ads?
I don't hate them. I think 80% should go back to the creators though.
I'd love to know their cost of storing all the YT videos and serving them.
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