Those YouTube ads everyone hates made $10.4 billion in just three months
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what ads? taps ublock and firefox android
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I'm not sure how the service could be sustainable.
Bold of you to assume any of us give a shit about keeping Alphabet's operations sustainable for them.
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Afaik, business units are individual. Their products don't finance each other.
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Can I dm you a question about google ad spending?
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Agreed. Seems there no floor to what people will put up with from them. I can’t understand it. I’ve tried products and services I found that I absolutely hated. I don’t have those products or services anymore.
It’s pretty easy to not do something.
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SmartTube Beta
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When they’re every few minutes, screw that. I do.
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YouTube runs at a loss, as far as I am aware. The other businesses prop it up. They run it, even at a loss, because they harvest data from it.
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And the user experience I should expect depends on their stupid hierarchy for reasons I should care about, I'm sure, but still I find myself not. Choosing to enshittify is a choice. Choosing a business model that depends on coercion into an ecosystem that will become enshittified after accumulating a critical mass is another, even more evil choice. Doing it while those cheering loudest are the ones being fucked hardest (I mean, there's still a "certain line" between how badly "certain groups" are discriminated against, but let's keep things broad here because we all know the in-group is going to shrink... you know the poem, those that don't speak up and all that) is yet another choice and one that I'm not willing to join. Doing it while playing monopolistic games arguably even more strongly than Microsoft did when it got hit with a Nynex-level antitrust suit is a step even further down the fuck-me-brick road. The list goes on. Have you met Android??? Google's motto used to be Don't Be Evil. Yeah, I'm at least that old. Fight me.
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Tinfoil hat time:
YouTube allows/endorses/pushes ads not suitable for kids because they know parents, of all people, have no time to curate their kids' ad experience and will just fork over the cash.
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Stop. Using. Youtube.
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And youtube. Kids sucks so much because they don't really want anyone to use it...
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Why not just switch it to English? I'm from non English country as well, most my apps are in English
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And replace it with what?
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The lack of alternatives where creators actually get paid for people watching their videos is the biggest problem.
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For watching YT videos:
NewPipe or Tubular for phone app.
FreeTube on Pc.
Invidious in browser.Just a few examples, there is loads more alternatives.
Including different platforms all together.
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Legend. Actually, I saw a comment further up the thread after writing mine. I installed the beta straight away, works great!
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Literally any other form of entertainment.
Though the statement was to stop using it, not replace it.
