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Those YouTube ads everyone hates made $10.4 billion in just three months (www.pcgamer.com)

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago

... And has made video content for billions of people unbearable to watch or enjoy.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I'd love to know their cost of storing all the YT videos and serving them.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago (6 children)

On desktop: uBlock origin (Vivaldi or Firefox). On mobile: Newpipe and AdAway (VPN mode, or rooted phone).

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Firefox + Ublock also work on mobile.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (19 children)

Tbh YT premium is well worth the asking price though I wish it subsidized the free experience as that's much more important for the platform.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Only on Lemmy you get downvoted for saying you pay for a service you like...

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

The problem is yt premium is not able to sustain google's platform. Only google's synergic monopolies make youtube possible and alternative financially unviable. Youtube, very literally, must die. As long as youtube exists it will maintain critical mass and kill everything else judt by existing. To fund youtube is to reinfotce this entrenchment. Both paying or watching ads and arguably just watching it, empowers google momooly position and its capture of the zeitgeist.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

What ads? My adblocker still works.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago (11 children)

Still need a good strategy for blocking ads on my TV. Mostly watching YouTube through a Chromecast so I can control it from my phone

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