Those YouTube ads everyone hates made $10.4 billion in just three months
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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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Many people responded with helpful advice. You decided to add rudeness to that. Why?
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It's somewhat of a catch, that's generally how monopolistic moats work but you really shouldn't be relying on google as a backup service for obscure videos you wish to keep.
I've no idea of the amount of lectures, guides, documentaries and other non-entertainment media that is available exclusively on youtube, but again it isn't an archiving service.
They can, will and have deleted whole channels for various reasons, most of which were bullshit, if you find something you absolutely have to keep, download it.
That being said, the process of downloading, archiving and curating content on anything more than a trivial scale can be much more involved than it seems, especially if you want backups/redundancy.
I've never been a big youtube user so my opinion on this is coloured by the fact that i don't have that much invested in the platform.
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I've never used Patreon, but are the videos not hosted there from YouTube?
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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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It was supposed to be a joke
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Yes. A rude joke.
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I am now downloading everything I personally need or like. Wish there was, say, a torrent index of Youtube videos)
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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.
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Can confirm. As soon as I turn off personalized ads, I get nothing but "find hot ladies in your area" and "play this hentai game" ads across all Google products. It's ridiculous.
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English has its pitfalls, but is in many ways incredibly simple.
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YouTube ReVanced all the way
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It's not that deep
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Do you think a GrayJay will stand o a NewPipe for this?
