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I'm gonna pay you $100 to fuck off (lemmy.ml)

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[–] gerryflap@feddit.nl 1 points 9 hours ago

Kinda makes sense tho. Either they earn money on you from ads or they make money from you because of subscription. Or you're like me and you still block the ads even though YouTube does everything it can to stop you.

I wouldn't really mind watching some ads before a video, but I don't wanna get constantly interrupted or have the ads track me everywhere. I tend to watch the in-video ads from creators tho, because most people I follow have relevant ads, funny ads, or ar the very least deserve some revenue.

[–] mitch404@sh.itjust.works 9 points 16 hours ago

That's basically google's main business. Their business is not in web search, video platform, mobile OS, email or AI, it's ad. People forget Google is an ad company, that uses any tool available to give you ad. If it's free and not open source, you are the product. Either to sell your attention and availability to companies through ads, or to use your data to do profiling, build a more vicious ad platform and sell your data on the side.

[–] herseycokguzelolacak@lemmy.ml 8 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

I don't pay anything. Just use newpipe/ublock/smarttube

[–] Sektor@lemmy.world 2 points 15 hours ago

Revanced and Tubular, for those who want more flavours.

[–] fodor@lemmy.zip 7 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Some of us pay ourselves to install an ad blocker and then we keep our money and we don't get any ads.

[–] osanna@lemmy.vg 3 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Wait, you guys are getting paid to not see ads??

[–] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 7 points 16 hours ago

I pay myself in handjobs.

[–] ductTapedWindow@lemmy.zip 6 points 17 hours ago

Why the fuck am I looking at a picture of Will Ferrell and not Ricky?

[–] DERRALEXANO@sh.itjust.works 4 points 17 hours ago

What’s that have to do with Ricky Bobby?

[–] pineapple@lemmy.ml 19 points 1 day ago

I'm gonna pay you $0 to fuck off (with ublock)

[–] ohlaph@lemmy.world 11 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

We could just ban advertising.

[–] DERRALEXANO@sh.itjust.works 6 points 17 hours ago

Like Cuba!

[–] DudleyMason@lemmy.ml 9 points 22 hours ago

I'm for it.

Any form of advertising aside from maybe a press release to announce a new product/service, and also any form of commissioned sales.

[–] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 8 points 21 hours ago

Why is it a random picture of Will Ferrell though? Why are recent memes like this?

[–] TabbsTheBat@pawb.social 102 points 1 day ago (6 children)

You guys pay youtube?

[–] CaptainSpaceman@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago (4 children)

PiHole exists!

[–] OrganicMustard@lemmy.world 33 points 1 day ago (5 children)

Pihole does not stop youtube ads as they are served through youtube's domains. You need ublock or something like that.

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[–] uniquethrowagay@feddit.org 9 points 1 day ago (7 children)

Stupid question, but does pihole offer any substantial benefit over using a remote ad-blocking DNS like AdGuard or whatever?

[–] CaptainSpaceman@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Please ignore the other two commenters.....

Adblockers block ads at the user level, meaning you have to manage the adblocker for each device in your ecosystem.

PiHole and similar DNS based ad blocking technologies OTOH block ads at the network level and only needs one install location to manage content for all devices you have on your network.

This means with PiHole you can have one set of custom rules that block all ads at the network level by using a set of pre-loaded and customizeable DNS blocklists. OR! you can install Ublock on 2 devices in your house and let the other 7 devices that have no access to adblockers (like IoT devices) be subject to the atrocity that is modern advertising.

Additionally, adblockers in browsers can eventually be shut off. See: Google Chrome and Ublock Origin.

[–] uniquethrowagay@feddit.org 1 points 16 hours ago

Yes but there are public DNS servers that block blacklisted domains. I can set that as DNS in my router settings and it works the same as using pihole as a blacklisting DNS server, right?

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (3 children)

But what does a pihole (which is DNS blocking) do that AdGuard's free public DNS (which is DNS blocking) doesn't? Of course uBlock Origin alongside them is better, but what's a pihole specifically doing?

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[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 5 points 21 hours ago

[–] Lucky_777@lemmy.world 43 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Never given YouTube a dime and never will

[–] betanumerus@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 day ago

Never clicking on any online ad is another goal to strive for.

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 7 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I've said this a few times in various places, but I'm really surprised we aren't allowed to bid for ad space for ourselves to not show an ad the way advertisers do for ads. Obviously a flat monthly rate is simpler, nobody is denying that, but just from a purely "free market" perspective (which shareholders love to say they want while using the government to crush opposition) why can't I pay slightly more than whatever small amount of money someone is paying to show me an ad to not see the ad?

Realistically I don't think we'll ever see that because it's a fairly complicated. I don't have any hard data, but I can't imagine that the majority of users using something like YouTube Premium are getting a "good deal." Sure, some folks probably watch all day every day and they get the better end of the deal, but I'd bet for a lot of folks YouTube makes more money off charging the subscription than they would showing the ads. Which is sort of an odd scenario we've gotten ourselves into (but amazing if you're a company that serves ads).

[–] Auth@lemmy.world 1 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Its a good idea but mentally people hate micro-transactions(transactions that are lower than 10cents) so they get mad every time its suggested. Plus its technically quite challenging to process those kind of transactions efficiently.

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 1 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

You wouldn't prompt them every time. And it would be no more difficult than serving the ads which are also charging every time they're shown.

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[–] viov@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That has to be built by all the people together

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 1 points 21 hours ago

Not necessarily, like if it was YouTube you'd just deposit money and maybe set a maximum amount of money you're willing to bid. Honestly most standard banner ads are from Google too, so they could handle that. For streaming services you'd need to set it up for each individually, but that's no different from setting up billing for each of them. They wouldn't need to talk to each other.

[–] n3m37h@sh.itjust.works 41 points 1 day ago (13 children)

Revanced on mobile uBlock on firefox

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[–] jeffep@lemmy.world 3 points 21 hours ago

Add to this that companies would prefer showing their ads to paying customers (who have some money to spend), not the free tier plebs

[–] MoffKalast@lemmy.world 15 points 1 day ago

"Perpetrators offer a service that will not be put into effect, or offer a service that solves a problem that would not exist without the racket."

The very definition of racketeering.

[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 21 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (9 children)

Every single youtube channel needs to start seeding torrents of their videos, and posting those links to other platforms (here, mastodon, etc).

Youtube / google could be defeated collectively if creators were to consistently do this, and interested people had the ability to help seed videos.

[–] ascend@lemmy.radio 26 points 1 day ago (2 children)

But a lot of YouTube channels get money through youtube

[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 15 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Most of the channels I know ask for donations via patreon or other funding platforms. I don't think youtube pays much except for maybe the top 1% of slop channels.

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 9 points 1 day ago

A lot more people make money than the top 1%. The top 1% make big money, but many more may not make a fortune, but it's a legit side hustle for them. Get into the right niche, and you can do VERY well.

[–] melfie@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 day ago

In most cases, not all that much. YouTube is mainly useful for getting views and building an audience. It’s a combination of revenue sources like sponsors, merchandise, donations, etc., that really make it worthwhile for creators.

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[–] SapphironZA@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Its much better to pay YouTube so the YouTubers get money based on what the audience wants, and not what the Advertisers want from Youtube.

[–] calculon@lemmy.ml 1 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

Sounds like you're describing Nebula

[–] SapphironZA@sh.itjust.works 1 points 15 hours ago

Nebula does not bring an audience like YouTube can, so its not a solution yet.

I think YouTube should have a free tier with limited watch minutes of low quality, not an advertising tier.

[–] lastweakness@lemmy.world 1 points 17 hours ago

Nebula sounds great until you use it... At least on Android, it buffers randomly for no reason, doesn't fallback onto audio-only if your screen is off, crashes, etc... it's just not very nice to use

[–] Chef@sh.itjust.works 12 points 1 day ago

They call it a double-sided economy.

I call it “let’s fuck everyone.”

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