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When you have a goose that produces a reliable daily supply of golden eggs do you:
- keep collecting your daily egg
or - see if giving it a good kick or two gets you more eggs
“But what about profits”
“The ~$10MM in profit we booked last year is not enough!” The curse of infinite growth.
As YouTube increases the number and length of ads, the amount of traffic behind blockers rises accordingly.
This is also just… a function of the evolving digital space. The consolidation of the internet ownership sphere and the modernized APIs/coding tools afford server-side content warehouses more and more power over what the end user receives.
Because AWS owns all the fucking rack space, because ISP monopolies are the defining feature of western net access, and Microsoft force-feeds people their proprietary interfaces, we’re moving away from the point where clients control what they display and closer to the point where everything’s just a dumb-terminal for big business.
We’re effectively backpeddling from Web 2.0 to Terrestrial TV.
Youtube most likely never made any money. Hosting these vast amounts of video is expensive. Google stopped telling us how much they money youtube made them lose. You would think they would start bragging when they could make a profit off of it.
That being said, this still sucks of course.
Although they don’t profit directly from youtube, it’s a strategy they take to impede competition from arising and keeping their name as the main one. It’s the kind of strategy only multibillionaire companies can do, and, in my opinion, something that should be restricted, because it affects smaller businesses to the point of becoming inviable.
More notably, its a strategy they can do when borrowing costs are functionally zero.
A lot of this shit is just the consequence of Fed Rate Policy. No more cheap money means these loss leaders are actually being expected to generate profit, not to just act as clearing houses for propaganda.
- keep collecting your daily egg
As fill-in ads are a vector for computer viruses and other malware I for one will NOT be disabling my ad blocker unless YouTube is willing to provide a lifetime subscription to something like Life Lock and make me whole for anything lost to whatever malware arrives as a part of an ad.
Where else can I watch sci-show, Linus-tech-tips, and all the other channels I subscribe to?
This is why I download so many YouTube videos. This is why I have a complicated video tags and search system (I’ll put it on github eventually).
Some day it’s going to get taken away and I’m not watching those trashy ads. I’d watch a non-obnoxious 15-30 second ad every 30 minutes but they want us to watch 2 minutes of unskippable full-r*tard annoying trash every 5 minutes and I will not cooperate with that in any way shape or form.
I think a reasonable ad system is that thing where YouTubers do that sponsorship thing and make it part of the video then you can skip it if it sucks.
Just use newpipe. It’s youtube without the ads. Doesn’t have casting support, but it allows you to download the videos. You can also listen/download to the audio of videos, without fetching the video.
Newpipe will probably be blocked as well if youtube is doing this. Honestly not sure why youtube hasn’t blocked yt-dlp and others already.
@beatniak @blank_sl8 recently many yt-dlp User Interfaces stopped working, I couldn’t download certain videos. So maybe the cat and mouse is about to begin.
this particular cat and mouse has been going on for a long time.
Although I get the impression it’s not particularly aggressive.
There was a while there about a year ago where newpipe seemed to break every week and you had to install the next patch version from github. It’s not like newpipe had to develop some new workaround or something, just changed class names or something.
oh boy, I wish youtube kills itself like reddit is doing right now so decentralized alternatives can become widely adopted
We’re getting closer to the prophetic 4chan post
That was a wild read. The 4chan guys can write better dystopias than Hollywood.
Is there an image that has better quality? It’s illegible.
Please drink a verification can for better resolution
glug glug glug?
Say “Larry page is better than Steve jobs” into your nearest across phone.
Yeah, good luck making me watch ads trough newpipe
YouTube demands NewPipe to pay $1b…
Haha
Newpipe or even better, LibreTube, for even more privacy (and included sponsorblock!).
Damn straight - they can take my NewPipe from my cold dead hands :-)
Alphabet killbots have been dispatched to your location. Remember to enable sponsorblock in the settings.
The great thing about using free open-source software is the immunity from corporate shenanigans.
Well, all the open-source Reddit clients are pretty drastically affected by Reddit’s shenanigans.
RedReader isn’t actually. Reddit granted them an exemption, partially because it’s FOSS
When will companies finally understand that some people won‘t watch ads no matter what tricks they employ. I‘d rather watch no video at all than a single ad. If that is their goal, fine.
Seems like it’s profit squeezin season on every major platform.
YouTube is the only Google service I use on a regular basis. Happy to leave them behind if they continue with this type of behavior.
It would be less convenient, but it is what it is and if there’s one thing I can’t stand, it’s ads.
Great, now YouTube is being further enshittified.
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Then I’m going to begin not fucking watching YouTube.
lol
There is a federated version of YouTube…
But storing video is a massive challenge, way harder than dealing with a Lemmy or Mastodon instance.
My rational mind realises it’s such an expensive system to run that it’s reasonable for them to charge or show ads. The problem is they’ve been extremely aggressive with ads and pushing subscriptions, to the point where I’m pretty resentful of the idea. Plus they’ve neglected so many things (like allowing aggressive copyright predators and refusing to implement sensible human-based appeals processes) that they really should have dealt with and instead embraced an algorithm that I’m pretty sure is at least partially responsible for the radicalisation of large groups of people.
I… don’t mind paying for shit. I just don’t want to give them money.
Also: wow there’s federated video sharing? Bet that’s not cheap to run.
The federated version also breaks one of YouTube’s bigger strengths: Just browsing for something interesting.
even google is having difficulty storing video.
We did the Twitter to Mastodon migration. Now we are doing the Reddit to Lemmy/kbin migration. When are we doing the YouTube to Peertube migration?
That’s impossible or at least very difficult, right now. Video content is very expensive. LBRY is the only feasible option.
Or people could just host their own peertube instance with banner ads instead of preroll/mid video ads and maybe add a donation/subscription system.
add a donation/subscription system.
At this point you could just subscribe to YouTube.
Not wanting to pay youtube does not mean not wanting to pay creators.
But YouTube is privately owned and not an open source platform that each creator has full control over
small cease and desist for users
They already get a lot of 💰from ad revenue, charging for a subscription just made that revenue even bigger.
It’s possible they’re losing some coins here and there from the ad revenue that they’ve become so aggressive 😆
