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Advertiser exodus from X gathers pace with 26% ‘planning to cut spending’ (www.theguardian.com)
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[–] normalexit 33 points 2 months ago (10 children)

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.

[–] rezifon 3 points 2 months ago (6 children)

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.

[–] shalafi 2 points 2 months ago (5 children)

Thanks for contributing! What is the difference between your experience and mine (with an ad blocker)?

[–] finalarbiter 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] jeansburger 1 points 2 months ago

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

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