Those YouTube ads everyone hates made $10.4 billion in just three months
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I have nebula, but still pay also for YT subscriptions
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Youtube started when hosting video’s was way easier. The files where smaller, the bandwidth of most people wasn’t that great either. Storage was more expensive though.
These days everybody wants 4K footage and everybody was 100-1000+ mbps internet and we have 4K screens so we can also watch it.
The competitors who host it are either paid up front or porn sites. Because there is no real way to start up a competitor to YouTube. I decided to accept that and I have RSSfeeds of all the creators I like to watch so I bypass the algorithm
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Or you can setup RSSFeeds direcrly and also include news articles and other stuff
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You have a point it's a monopoly but most YouTube videos I watch now the creators are always suggesting viewing on patreon because of all the YouTube copyright stuff.
I've noticed quite a few have vanished from YouTube so maybe there's some signs YouTube is starting to get to annoying for creators.
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Yeah they are and they need to act like seperate businesses to each other.
But Google is just going to loan YouTube money when it needs to. Google is basically playing the game with infinite money. -
You should teach your teachers.
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havent seen them. are they any different? i am sure it is the same scam google does with Ads. only boomers see it, but are not the target group and the advertisers are just wasting money.
instead of using piped/smarttube i advise to not use US based services at all.I mean fuck you for supporting the ultragreedy.
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oh not the menu translation, but the local website translation. well I'm happy if that's your worst problem
btw, translation to english will almost always work the best, with any kind of service
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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.
