Those YouTube ads everyone hates made $10.4 billion in just three months
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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.
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Yup. Even comes by default with sponsor block and some other things, which is customisable
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Dude, if you dislike it that much you could just like... not use it?
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Control over the finalized product. You can easily shape an ad to have your exact message reach the right people, and have that ad be more attractive. With an influencer sponsorship you do not have as much control over the final product or the audience.
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Swedish is fine
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It's not just ads on Youtube. It's also all the sponsor crap and filler content to get to 10 minute videos.
I use it with an adblocker and sponsorblock but it's still shit.
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Look into Sideloadly and uYouPlus by qnblackcat . I’ve been using it for years now, and while a hassle to sign the apps every week, it’s the best we have unfortunately.
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Stringing more non-sequitors into this probably won't make it make more sense
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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.
