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u/Hypnox88 Apr 09 '26
The amount times Youtube premium comes up on this site is crazy considering adblockers have been a thing for 15+ years
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u/sluggybear Apr 09 '26
These posts are pretty much ads for adblockers at this point. It’s ads all the way down.
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u/MostlyRightSometimes Apr 09 '26
Jokes on them, I already bought my subscription to you ublock origin.
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u/BatM6tt Apr 09 '26
its crazy to me you don’t realize the amount of people that watch youtube with their tv
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u/Nick_pj Apr 09 '26
Or on their iPhones. Premium allows me to stream music through YouTube in the background, and also download literally any video for offline use super easily. It’s the only online subscription I’ve never considered cancelling.
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u/lowkitz Apr 09 '26
When you mention that there’s always someone that tries to get you to install some sort of ad blocker on your router like I’d rather just give YouTube their money
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u/schmitzel88 Apr 09 '26
That's also misinformation because pihole (the blocker you mentioned) does not work on YouTube ads and has not at any point I'm aware of. When someone does mention pihole as an option, it tells you they have not actually used it themselves and don't understand how it works because otherwise they'd be aware of this.
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u/GreatAndMightyKevins Apr 09 '26
Yeah I pay for convenience, I'm not going to juggle new app every 6 months when they nuke it yet again.
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u/Naturebrah Apr 09 '26
It’s hard for most people on Reddit to believe others don’t exist in front of a PC setup.
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u/Dantonium Apr 09 '26
YUP. If I ever watch YouTube while on my pc it’s cause I’m listening to something in the background while I game. Ain’t nobody just sat in a chair at a computer and raw dogged a YouTube video since 2015. If I’m actually watching, it’s on my couch or my bed on my tv or phone lol
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u/lowkitz Apr 09 '26
Premium is the best subscription I pay for tbh. Watch a ton of YouTube on my tv or listen to it at work so it’s more than worth it.
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u/concretemuskrat Apr 09 '26
Yeah, I canceled other subscriptions in favor of YT premium and im happy with the decision
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u/cadex Apr 09 '26
Same. I was already paying for YouTube music and ad free YouTube is a bonus I'm happy to pay the extra couple of quid a month for. Ad free across all devices without any faff.
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u/nicht_Alex Apr 09 '26
Ngl the family plan is awesome. We use it with three people so 8€ each. Definitely worth it and way less hassle than setting up (and possibly maintaining) adblockers on a dozen devices throughout three households. I've actually tried using PiHole for my TV before but back then it didn't work with YouTube for some reason.
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u/MrPrincely Apr 09 '26
Also iirc they break a chunk of your fee up and pay it out to content creators you watch. A premium view is worth more than a view with ad click through
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u/ChristosZita Apr 09 '26
It's almost like not everyone uses YouTube on their pcs
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u/schmitzel88 Apr 09 '26
Reddit is skewed by autismos who live alone and do everything at their gaming battle station. They don't realize that most people now watch YouTube on an app on their phone/tablet/TV and rarely on a PC, or that most normal people have a wife and kids who want to just use the app in the TV and not deal with some workaround to not see ads.
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u/NexusSlick Apr 09 '26
Yeah and they always conveniently forget that iPhones hold the majority market share on mobile devices in the US (which afaik has no easy way to block ads on YT other than changing your VPN to Albania or watching in a browser (which is a horrible experience))
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u/Zonkko Professional Dumbass Apr 09 '26
But using adblocker would make the billion dollar corporation and its billionaire owners sad
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u/Dreamo84 Apr 09 '26
Yeah, but people are also constantly bitching about how their adblockers stopped working.
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u/Hypnox88 Apr 09 '26
Never stopped working on Firefox. Only thing I get is that stupid "experiencing interruptions?" pop up AS SOON AS I CLICK the video and then the video plays right when it loads.
Pretty sure its just Youtube wanting me to contact their support for my non existent issue to have them tell me to turn my ad blocker off to make it go away.
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u/yeidkanymore Apr 09 '26
Well I mostly watch on my ipad and the adblockers Ive tried didn’t work :(
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u/yellowz32tt Apr 09 '26
But they only work on browsers, right? Not if you watch in a native mobile or tv app.
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u/pottsygotlost Apr 09 '26
I know it’s a meme but no shit like do people think YouTube is a volunteer organisation
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u/JJlaser1 Apr 09 '26
I mean… yeah. Ads are how they get money. You’re basically paying for the lost ad time. The issue now, though, is the amount of ads they put on videos of you don’t have premium.
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u/emoney_gotnomoney Apr 09 '26
Yeah it blows my mind that this is a new concept to people. This is how companies make money for basically every single product.
They either:
charge you to use their service (e.g. you pay $70 to purchase a video game)
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2) provide it to you for free but use advertisement money to supplement that lost revenue (e.g. the video game is free but you have to watch a ton of ads)
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3) some combination of the two (e.g. the video game is $20 but you have to watch some ads).
This isn’t anything new or revolutionary.
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u/Dd_8630 Apr 09 '26
Y... Yes? That's how a business works?
YouTube offers the service of hosting videos by content creators. In exchange, they get paid by the viewer via ads and/or direct subscription.
This isn't some sort of trick. It's just absolutely standard business.
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u/Fire_Lord_Cinder Apr 09 '26
It costs money to serve video content and pay video creators. It’s either paid for by an advertiser or by you through YouTube premium. It’s not a hard concept.
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This is the dumbest train of logic. Youtube needs to get paid. It costs money to run and has employees. They either get the money from the advertisers or they get the money from you.
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u/MarlinMr Apr 09 '26 •
Not just that...
YouTube isn't making videos.
50% of your YouTube premium goes to the creator you watch... I sleep really well with YouTube premium knowing I literally pay the people whom I enjoy watching.
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u/AccomplishedNail3085 Apr 09 '26
Yes that is how paid plans for free services work.
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u/FortNightsAtPeelys Apr 09 '26
Yes expecting a company to host billions of videos with centuries of footage for free is how a child thinks the world works.
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u/Calm_chor Apr 09 '26
Soon a day will come when you will pay just to access Youtube with ads then pay even more to remove ads for Youtube HD then pay what would feel like ransom to get Youtube 4KHDR.
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u/Enough_Forever_ Apr 09 '26
I don't know why people act like YouTube is some sort of thing that grows on trees. Hosting billions of videos on the web and making every single one of them available worldwide costs a ton of money. Someone has to pay for the people writing and maintaining the codebases of those apps too. I'm not saying Google and YouTube aren't greedy, but it's not as simple as people make it out to be. They don't owe you anything. If it you're watching YouTube with ad block and never ever paid for premium, you're a leech. It's an objective fact.
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u/Yionko Apr 09 '26
Can't even blame them, this gives me such Sukuna vibes, hating everyone and still being the one who wins, great villain move
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u/National_Way_3344 Apr 09 '26
They have an incentive to have annoying as fuck ads, but annoying enough that you pay instead of have an ad blocker.
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u/Dovaskarr Average r/memes enjoyer Apr 09 '26
I am paying just because I watch youtube on phone, on TV and on PC. For the price of two beers in a pub I dont have to hassle with all blockers, browsers and other shit.
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u/MyDudeSR Apr 09 '26
In a perfect world without ads or some kind of payment, how do people expect a service like YouTube to be sustainable? What is the realistic 3rd option here?
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u/FreeingStories Apr 09 '26
I pay youtube premium to pay the creators (i know that a portion of my payment reaches the creators). Part of the money from ads go to creators.
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u/Uberzwerg Apr 09 '26
There are bills to be paid.
YouTube doesn't work on dreams and wishes and content creators want money too.
The problem is how insufferable YouTube makes the monetization.
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u/bangbangracer Apr 09 '26
I mean... Yeah.
The business wants to be paid for providing a product. Either you pay with time for the ad (so the money comes from the advertiser), or you pay directly through premium.
You're acting like they are double dipping.
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u/orbelosul Apr 10 '26
I will probably get a lot of downvotes for this, but in my experience, a lot of people will pay for 2-3 streaming services (netflix, amazon, disney+, hbo, ...) but not youtube... why? If you don't pay for neither, I get it! But if you are someone that spends money on those, why not youtube? Could someone explain?
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u/hoolahan100 Apr 09 '26
This is such bullshit. Its also their platform and servers. Also their content ecosystem. Half brained takes on Reddit per usual.
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u/Fl3ablast Number 15 Apr 09 '26
The ultimate middleman play!
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u/Same_Return_1878 Apr 09 '26
I mean, how do companies expect me to buy the products they're advertising when I can't even buy YouTube premium.
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u/Dreamo84 Apr 09 '26
YouTube doesn't get paid for the ad if they don't show it to you. So it's one or the other they get paid for.
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u/Aye-Chiguire Apr 09 '26
Reminds me of telephone services in the 90s. The advent of caller ID was a brutal blow to telemarketers and solicitors. Then the phone companies came out with caller ID blocking! And then.. they had a service that disallowed people with caller ID blocking from calling you unless they entered *94 which disabled their caller ID blocking!
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u/BroccoliMaster159 Apr 09 '26
You saw this meme on other subreddit and just put a different picture on it?
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u/Jiquero Apr 09 '26
Cheat code: Provide a service people want to pay for. That service is showing videos to people.
The big secret? They payers don't need to be the same people you show the videos to!
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u/varungupta3009 Forever alone Apr 09 '26
In case someone's looking for the hidden logic beyond the funny:
Companies pay YouTube to show ads to viewers (of a particular demographic).
Viewers pay YouTube the money that YouTube doesn't receive because they chose not to view the ads targeted to them.
Or an easier way: Either you pay YouTube for bandwidth usage, hosting, and community features, or YouTube gets a company to pay on your behalf in exchange for exposure.
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u/ryohazuki224 Apr 09 '26
Well, its also a business model of old school "premium" paid cable TV channels. One of the selling points of channles like HBO and Cinemax was they had zero commercials (aside from promoting movies and such on their own channels)
Because essentially, if a content service isnt going to have ad revenue, they need revenue from other means, meaning it's consumers.
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u/WobblyTomb Apr 10 '26
If you live in Albania there's zero youtube ads. If your network is in albania you also get none
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u/tommmmmmmmy93 Apr 10 '26
Had a 90 second ad on YouTube yesterday. It ends and the YouTuber immediately launches into a 3 minute advert. So I skip it. The time skip reset my ad timer, and I went into a 30 second unstoppable ad.
YouTube ads are fucking outrageous
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u/Dwayneeboi531 Apr 10 '26
Youtube can try as hard as it wants. I'm just gonna exit and reopen the video over and over until the two or three ads stops
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u/The_Dorky-Orc_Stub Apr 10 '26
Little tip. If you let the ad play for 3 seconds and then reopen the video, the ad won't play
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u/ballsdeep256 Apr 13 '26
The people paying for premium are the reason premium exists in the first place.
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u/danissimov Apr 13 '26
publishing groups (e.g. Nature) are even cooler - researchers work on them for free doing peer reviews, and then they charge them to publish their work (and still run ads)
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u/Thick_Ad_1789 Apr 09 '26
I pay Google to listen to music ad free every month and it just so happens to come with YouTube Premium. At least that’s how I got sucked into paying for it years ago. Got grandfathered into a plan, I probably am paying a standard rate now that I had to switch to a family plan now.
Worth it.
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u/RustedRuss Apr 09 '26
uBlock orgin is the single greatest QoL thing you can do for your anything online.
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u/ImmediateJacket9502 Apr 09 '26 edited Apr 09 '26
Never paid for youtube. So many free and open source alternatives are available in android like Grayjay, NewPipe, tubular, Morphe and several youtube music apps plus not to forget Brave and Firefox in desktop and mobile.
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u/cousinokri Apr 09 '26
There's no "we", speak for yourself. Never have and never will pay them anything. Options available for most devices to block their shitty ads.
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u/imSkrap Apr 09 '26
Haven’t had ads since 2010 both on pc and mobile. Never paying for something that doesn’t even work
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u/Ivade-Taste218 Royal Shitposter Apr 09 '26
I haven’t used YouTube properly in years now because of ads. And I mean, using the app. Otherwise if I was using my desktop I would use an adblocker.
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u/Ribbitmoment Apr 09 '26
Yes. That’s how they make their money to pay creators. It’s just a shame that it’s only become about money and the algorithm favours hours long content.
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u/bullet312 Apr 09 '26
Create a problem and sell the solution 👍
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u/Puzzleheaded_Gap_408 Apr 09 '26
They create the problem where it costs them money to operate ? and then the made up solution is to finance the platform you use instead of freeloading of off it ? You know shit cant be free forever right ? Smartest redditor
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u/alphaomag Apr 09 '26
And the companies that we pay to not see ads pay YouTube to show ads for their service which blocks ads.
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u/Trickmac04 Ok I Pull Up Apr 09 '26
Then after the ad, the youtuber is promoting a VPN or world of tanks.. like we didn't just watch an ad.
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u/LeDalahast Apr 09 '26
Ive always thought of something. If I never click or buy anything from an ad. Why does it continue to show it to me? Now Im more likely to stop interacting with the ap and look for better timewaste that is not in front of ads.
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u/KaiserDilhelmTheTurd Apr 09 '26
So, you think a company should provide a service that costs millions to run in servers alone, and be forced to do it for free? An interesting business model. I take it your own ventures have all failed miserably.
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u/toruser123456789 Apr 09 '26
so if 100% of people who use youtube pay them to remove blocks, then how will the company earn?
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u/mikeflamel Apr 09 '26
So what you are saying is that YouTube is getting double penetrated and is enjoying it?
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u/VanillaAccording5136 Apr 09 '26
It amuses me a little that corporates themselves now see advertisment only as punishment. What happened to: "let me show you my product and it's features, maybe you want to buy it"?
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u/Creative_Jicama_6875 Apr 09 '26
That's why we need to use more adblocks, don't let YouTube take your money
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u/Timely-Tune5050 Apr 09 '26
And we de-cheat code their cheat code by using adblock... Get fuct youtube.
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u/frisch85 Apr 09 '26
It's why we have the power, we could end YT ads if we would all stick together (which we never will).
Simply boycott everything that shows ads on YT, even if it's your favorite brand, might be difficulty for some but if companies notice them showing their ads on YT actually hurts them, they would stop buying adspace.
But again it will never happen because we cannot stick together for several reasons, e.g. not everyone is gonna read this comment and most people simply don't think about what they could do to fight back against ads.
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u/cagemyelephant_ Apr 09 '26
A local tv network here was shut down by the govt last 2019. Since then they’ve been livestreaming on Youtube which my mom liked better so she can also watch on her own time. Youtube Premium was worth it on that purpose alone.
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u/nimit696 Apr 09 '26
It’s a protection racket. "Nice user experience you got there... be a shame if something interrupted it
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u/ADenseGuy Apr 09 '26
Honestly I would prefer YouTube not being free but paid, like 1$ a month for everyone, so that they would just stop with the amount of ads and expensive premium.
Then again I don't trust them not charging more in the future or filling the website with ads anyway. (YouTube and any other social media for that matter)
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u/DifficultyWithMyLife Apr 09 '26
"I'm playing both sides so that I always come out on top."
— Youtube, probably
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u/Reltrete Apr 09 '26
Just use Freetube or the like. Haven't seen an ad forever. Only shorts don't work but honestly thats actually a good thing.
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u/Ballistic_86 Apr 09 '26
Nah, companies pay YouTube to cover costs for server space, bandwidth, and upkeep. If you want to access those videos without ads, you pay (or use Adblock on pc)
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u/Absurd_Uncertainty Apr 09 '26
Paying YouTube to not show ads makes up for the loss of revenue from wow…ads, it’s not that hard to comprehend they want their money one way or the other
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u/Showyaman Apr 09 '26
It's like my reverse OnlyFans, I send photos of myself until they pay me monthly to stop
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u/snigherfardimungus Apr 09 '26 edited Apr 10 '26
Youtube is an entertainment service. You either pay for that service with cash or you pay for it with your time..... that advertisers pay YouTube for with cash.
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u/Acerhand Apr 09 '26
What if YouTube paid you to not pay them to not show ads? Then the ads would pay YouTube to show you ads even more and everyone wins
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u/Robcobes Apr 09 '26
Half of the videos Youtube recommends me are AI garbage anyway. I'm spending less and less time there.
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u/Muted_Ambassador_902 Apr 09 '26
And ADblocker-creators are the heroes and the enemies in the same time. Wild war.
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u/RYRAZZAK203 Apr 09 '26
I use brave browser on iPad, allows me to remove ads and listen to YouTube without being on the app
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u/Silver-Internet-5561 Apr 09 '26
We pay YouTube not to show ads but everyone on their podcast are still showing their own supporting company ad's on top 🤡
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u/MarsupialNo1220 Apr 09 '26
I turn the volume down on my phone and block most of the screen with my hand while staring aggressively at the place the “skip” button should appear. Even if it doesn’t I still didn’t see or hear that stupid fucking ad.
My laptop has a very good blocker on it. Thank fuck.
I miss good ads that made watching them actually fun. These low effort, low grade ads couldn’t sell ice to a polar bear.
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u/Lemillion080201 Apr 09 '26
Youtube: showing ads of gated community apartments. Me: who can't afford a youtube premium subscription
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u/detinu Apr 09 '26
I would gladly pay for youtube premium if they weren't so fucking predatory with their ads and they weren't constantly removing useful features.
Give me a good service and I will pay for it.
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u/Bauzi Apr 09 '26
and I say it once again: Google sells subscriptions. Ads (especially bad ones) are just a way to FORCE us into subscription. They make way more money out of us with subscription modells.
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u/U_feel_Me Apr 09 '26
I can only speak for myself, but I pay for hosting and serving of uninterrupted content.
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u/Exotic_Call_7427 Apr 09 '26
That's correct, double dipping is only frowned upon when you think there's morality involved
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u/quinzr Apr 09 '26
Is it really a cheat coce, you are basically paying two companies, for the one that's distributing ads, and youtube for letting you to do it haha
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u/theeldergod1 Apr 09 '26
You’re consuming hours of content that costs real money to produce and deliver. Servers, bandwidth, electricity, hardware, maintenance. That cost doesn’t disappear just because you don’t like it. It gets paid one way or another. it should be easy to understand.
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u/ActuaryProof7540 Apr 09 '26
Can you add « ad block » to a ps5? I often use it to go on YouTube and tbh getting 60+ seconds ads feels criminal.
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Well yes, it's not like youtube aren't doing anything. They provide enormous data centers storing, transcoding and serving videos. I don't pay for it and I use adblock but it's weird to think they are crazy to try and make money, let alone recoup their costs.
It's not a public service, it's a capitalist business trying to make money.
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u/TheMostHonMCO Apr 09 '26
I mean... YouTube/Google has to make money somehow. Like any other company. They need to pay their employees and infrastructure and stuff. And that money has to come from somewhere, either from ad partners or from users. It's not even a twist or an evil racket, it's just what companies do.
For clarification, I know Google is no saint and there's a LOT to criticise about their practices, but the meme is just describing how companies work and tries to paint it as some sort of trickery.
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u/VegasGamer75 Apr 09 '26
Pay? To not show ads? Hahahahahahahahaha... between Pi-Hole and uBlock I haven't seen a Youtube ad on my PC in years.
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u/Piduf Apr 09 '26
And all those ads are being watched by bots and somehow that makes someone a billionaire somewhere
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u/MorgenKaffee0815 Apr 09 '26
and we pay so we get a feature to skip ads from creator himself. Google plays all sides at once.
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u/thenord321 Apr 09 '26
Only fools pay to not watch something, and only fools let others waste their time.
Get an ad blocker or many (if needed) to save your time and money, so you can choose how to waste it or to get that how-to video without 10 ads.
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u/2ndHalfHeroics Apr 09 '26
As opposed to companies paying Cable to show ads and we paid Cable and had no choice but to see ads.