Those YouTube ads everyone hates made $10.4 billion in just three months
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Teacher here. My school uses everything Chrome OS and locks the ability to install extensions or other browsers. It's not always us.
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Shit tons of people are paying for it. And the ones that aren’t, are viewing ads- both of these things are a profit for YouTube.
The only option you have is to not use the services at all. This is how you hurt them.
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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.
