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overflowy 4 hours ago

FYI: Doesn't block YouTube ads.

quaintdev 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Google will stop paying them if they tried that.

nkozyra 3 hours ago | parent [-]

A weird line to draw since Google still owns the general ad web space.

doikor 3 hours ago | parent [-]

It doesn’t cost cost google money to show that content. (It does cost someone else who google would be giving a cut of the ad revenue)

YouTube videos actually have some real world disk space, bandwidth, etc costs just to show so if google doesn’t get to show an ad they lose money instead of an opportunity to make money.

LeoPanthera 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I'm regularly surprised that people are willing to block YouTube ads. I know that Google gets that advertising money too, but you're also blocking revenue that the channel owner would otherwise get. I suppose it might depend what you're watching, but most YouTubers aren't big business, they're just individuals.

YouTube Premium is one of the few subscriptions I am completely happy to pay.

barbazoo 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

It doesn't have to go through Google. Lots of us support the people they follow through patreon et al, I don't need to make the gigacorp even richer than it is. They have enough.

bitpush an hour ago | parent [-]

Why do these creators use YouTube then? Why cant they host it on s3 and the have you directly compensate? Surely the creator is getting some value from YouTube and YT expects to be compensated for that?

barbazoo an hour ago | parent [-]

> Surely the creator is getting some value from YouTube and YT expects to be compensated for that?

I'd imagine Google would start charging for videos that don't make enough money or heavily deprioritize them from discovery. That seems like a problem they could solve if they wanted to.

hn_submit 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Without ad blocking YouTube is simply unwatchable / unbearable.

DarmokTanagra 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

when they stop placing ads arbitrarily in the middle of a sentence or scene Ill stop blocking them

seanyeh 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Many people are not aware that for smaller creators, Google forces ads on their videos (without consent) and takes all the revenue

ncr100 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Youtube decides the thresholds, the payouts, the promotional algorithms.

izzydata 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I inherently disagree with the ad model of business. Intentionally worsening a product with ads to convince people to pay to remove them is just rewarding them for enshitification.

So on that front I'd prefer YouTube go out of business so that something like Nebula can take its place. Or the only videos left at\re the ones doing it as a hobby and not as a job.