Those YouTube ads everyone hates made $10.4 billion in just three months
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Musify exists.
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Eh, I would argue you're only using the servers to access the content creators data. Youtube is the interface, algorithm, advertisement, comments, etc. If it's just the creators data being accessed with no additional contribution from youtube then I would just treat it as any ol' host server.
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There was a true golden age where the technology for ads was so shitty and the companies didn't even know what they were worth somewhere between 2006-2010.
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... And has made video content for billions of people unbearable to watch or enjoy.
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I'll just share with you my experience:
I was also paying for a YouTube Premium family plan, but still got ads. What made me cancel was the fact that they're still using trackers, so they were making money off me three times (subscription, ads, and selling my data)!
Coupled with the fact that "content creators" don't really make content for the love of making it. It's all created "for the algorithm", especially the "watch to the end", clickbait titles and thumbnails, "like and subscribe" begging, "only 15% of you are subscribers", sponsored content disguised as education, etc... Videos today are nothing like they were 15 years ago, because it became solely about making money.
Google is one of the pioneers of the enshittification movement!
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RVX, a fork of ReVanced, works well on Android. You'll have to side load it yourself, but it's got very good ad blocking and sponsor block if you don't want to hear shilling during a video.
No idea for iPhone.
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Yes, and for all I care, they can run out (though they won't) and their sites can shut down.
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I'm using newpipe but the anybility to find content with youtubr's content discovery algorithm or a locally running one makes for a lot yif very annoying tab switching and scrolling to the bottom of newpipe thousand item playlist.
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I think he means native sponsored segment when you're the first person to watch with sponsor blocks. But that's mostly only videos realeased under 5 minutes ago.
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Yep, this works! No ads.
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The problem is yt premium is not able to sustain google's platform. Only google's synergic monopolies make youtube possible and alternative financially unviable. Youtube, very literally, must die. As long as youtube exists it will maintain critical mass and kill everything else judt by existing. To fund youtube is to reinfotce this entrenchment. Both paying or watching ads and arguably just watching it, empowers google momooly position and its capture of the zeitgeist.
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"But we can't pay our content creators! We're a starving tech company! Niche stuff no one uses or has heard of! We needed to cut the money so they had to push scams!"
