Those YouTube ads everyone hates made $10.4 billion in just three months
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Can I dm you a question about google ad spending?
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Agreed. Seems there no floor to what people will put up with from them. I can’t understand it. I’ve tried products and services I found that I absolutely hated. I don’t have those products or services anymore.
It’s pretty easy to not do something.
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When they’re every few minutes, screw that. I do.
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YouTube runs at a loss, as far as I am aware. The other businesses prop it up. They run it, even at a loss, because they harvest data from it.
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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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Stop. Using. Youtube.
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And youtube. Kids sucks so much because they don't really want anyone to use it...
Sadly though, they don't have to plan to do these things. They just don't invest in making them kid safe. -
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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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Yup. Even comes by default with sponsor block and some other things, which is customisable
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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.
