Those YouTube ads everyone hates made $10.4 billion in just three months
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Thus guy is an absolute legend, the project has been alive for like ten years at this point and still gets updates and fixes regularly.
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I think your theory is plausible. On the YT smart TV app, the ads seem to be increasingly about unpleasant things like dick pills, period pads, and constipation treatments. I think they literally serve up unsavory ad content as a way of punishing you into shelling out for a subscription. Jokes on them, I just switched to SmartTube.
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Butt stuff
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So they are aware of how terrible ads are and they intentionally want to keep it this way, so that they can sell advertisers "better ads" for higher premium as a form of product and price diversification, with those "better" products they offer eventually end up being terrible and make the ads situation as a whole worse, so they can keep introducing new kinds of "better ads" product to have a "justified" way of asking even more money from advertisers?
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Pornhub?
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Deez nutz
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I use an alternative frontend for actually watching stuff, just google and find one with a public instance, no ads, can do pip on your phone for free
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also easy to host for yourself
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Nebula pays creator, and you pay to Nebula.
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At least use an adblocker
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Sadly I still see that ads benefit a lot of my clients. The more advertising they do the more revenue they get, but this is only for small to medium sized companies. However if every company in the world spends 100k on adverts on platforms like Google we would easily surpass the 10b.
Dropshippers are the best example of this. No ads means no revenue.
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Safari in itself also blocks a lot of ads, but if that is not enough IOS users can also install Firefox. There is no reason to watch ads anymore
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I have nebula, but still pay also for YT subscriptions
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Youtube started when hosting video’s was way easier. The files where smaller, the bandwidth of most people wasn’t that great either. Storage was more expensive though.
These days everybody wants 4K footage and everybody was 100-1000+ mbps internet and we have 4K screens so we can also watch it.
The competitors who host it are either paid up front or porn sites. Because there is no real way to start up a competitor to YouTube. I decided to accept that and I have RSSfeeds of all the creators I like to watch so I bypass the algorithm
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Or you can setup RSSFeeds direcrly and also include news articles and other stuff
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You have a point it's a monopoly but most YouTube videos I watch now the creators are always suggesting viewing on patreon because of all the YouTube copyright stuff.
I've noticed quite a few have vanished from YouTube so maybe there's some signs YouTube is starting to get to annoying for creators.
