Those YouTube ads everyone hates made $10.4 billion in just three months
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There are some translation extensions that are much better than the built-in one. Still not as good as Chrome tho
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does it count as viewing if every time I just download the videos with yt-dlp, and watch in a good media player?
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He probably means the website translation function. Very useful for translating local websites, that aren't available in english, if you don't speak the language or not fluent enough
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On a related note. Why would creators add sponsored segments/other sponsoring/patreon etc if YT pays them enough?
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YT doesn't pay them enough. Unless your some kind of super star.
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Touching grass
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Youtube is not just entertainment tho - the catch is that Google has way too much actually useful info hostage, like lectures, guides or documentaries.
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As far as I know, Firefox doesn’t have ad blocking or extensions on iOS.
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@EngineerGaming @Senal tbf a lot of the creators I watch on YouTube are now on nebula and/or patreon. I ought to explore alternatives.
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True. But I am not even talking about dedicated content creators (for whom it is indeed an option!). I am talking about, say, an old laptop disassembly guide that a random master uploaded and just forgot about it. People not actively managing their content are not going to bother.
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It does not. If you don’t want to sideload, consider AdGuard and/or Vinegar. Only works with Safari, though.
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I think they can pretty much post whatever they want but I've never used it myself as it's all pay walled. But yeah I think reactors are all jumping over to it as it gets harder to post anything on YouTube without someone else trying to claim the ad money.
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Competition. It's all about competition between companies. In highly saturated markets ads serve to build brand recognition and are seen as long term investment to gain market share. Good example is TikTok. The social media market is very much saturated and competition very high, so TikTok's strategy was to buy every ad they could to create brand recognition, which in turn helped gaining market share.
So I don't think the ad business is a bubble at all, it's just that the usefulness and function depends on the market a company competes within.
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I find using it in a browser clunky. Much prefer a dedicated app (now I use Tubular), which gives some extra functions like downloads, history and playlists.
