YouTube keeps uBlock functioning to keep me going to their website.
this post was submitted on 10 Dec 2024
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The thing with advertising is that the advertisers make more money in product sales from people who watched ads than they spend telling YT to push their ads. That's just how the advertising business works.
In other words, either the viewers pay youtube not to show ads, or the viewers pay the advertisers to pay youtube (in a roundabout way).
So it's just you paying in both cases, unless you use an adblocker :)
PSA: firefox + ublock origin blocks youtube ads even on mobile (on android at least)
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The bourgeoisie (parasites) pay the bourgeoisie (parasites) to make their service worse in an attempt to extract more capital from you. You give the bourgeoisie capital… to stop them from making their service worse in order to take your capital?
This is a lose lose for you and a win win for corpo scum. Use an Adblock, take to the seven seas, use platforms that are decentralized. Then it’s a win win for you and, added bonus, it’s typically parasite free.
Meanwhile YouTubers don’t get paid enough so they still show you their ads.
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And yet they show us ads even if we do pay.
What do you mean? I pay for YouTube and never see ads (basically the only service I pay for, I use it a LOT and started feeling guilty towards the creators for blocking ads, so I cancelled Spotify and now use the included yt music and get both for about the same price).
Well yes, that's how they don't go out of business. In theory.
So you're saying the audience for the ads have the people who are willing to pay for stuff, the very people the advertisers are paying to reach, removed from it.
I wonder how much longer this will go before the advertisers catch on to that.
You forgot the part where they pay the video creator 50% of the money and use the other 50% to run one of the most computationally expensive and complex services on the internet.
I don't know about computationaly expensive. Once video is processed, it's mostly just a fancy CDN.
I was sort of lumping storage and compute costs together as "compute" but compute itself is probably astronomical too.
Even if it was just a CDN, a cdn at that scale streaming that much content simultaneously would require a huge amount of compute just to handle the streaming request traffic.
There's also the recommendation algorithm which is powered by ai and takes a shit ton of parameters, at that scale that would be a massive computational task in and of itself.
Even video processing they probably send it through a couple Ai pipelines to add subtitles, make sure it's not porn, check if your discussing topics with high misinformation so it can put that Wikipedia link below the video, etc.
All that plus probably another million other little problems that comes with running a service at that scale.
Wouldn't serving video and bandwidth concerns count as complexity?
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"We"? Who's "we"? There is no "we".
Advertising is a racket. Always has been.
Moonoopooly babey
Yes that's how a company makes money...continue, you can do this!
Yeah. That's how it works. They get money either from serving you ads or exempting you from the ad service. Either way they get money.
I'm astounded at how much is available on the internet at no/little cost. Think how valuable our data must be for them to continue providing it.
I don't pay YouTube shit
I mean...yeah. Ads subsidize viewers that can't/won't pay. That's the whole system. Did you expect something else?
Sucks but better than paying for cable to still see ads.