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YouTube is Losing The War Against Adblockers (www.howtogeek.com)
submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/technology
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  • YouTube is intensifying efforts to combat adblockers, including blocking video playback and warning users of potential account suspension.
  • Increased ads on YouTube have driven many users to adblockers, hurting both YouTube’s ad revenue and content creators reliant on ad-based income.
  • Despite these measures, many users are leaving YouTube or finding workarounds, leading creators to seek alternative revenue streams off-platform.
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[–] seaQueue 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Pro tip, LLMs do an excellent job summarizing YouTube videos now. I've never liked YouTube content, the incentives for creators are perverse and discourage conveying accurate information simply in favor of drawing out every video to maximize ad opportunities. About 95% of the content I might have been interested in could have been better conveyed in a 1-2 page blog post and read in 2 minutes instead of stretched out into a 15 minute video. Having a robot summarize that content is so much less irritating.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

What do you use for that, fetch the transcript and just feed it to the LLM of your choice? Or are you talking of the actual LLM watching and summarizing?

[–] seaQueue 2 points 2 months ago

I've always just used chatgpt for both tasks. I'll ask my SO, she does more of this and she might have better tools to suggest.