Hit report issue to confuse their algorithms lol
As if they even take time to view or utilize those reports. It has always taken a
Twittercampaign to get YouTube to even notice an issue with the algorithm.
Here’s the thing, YouTube. When you first started running ads, I didn’t really mind. They were short, there weren’t that many, and if they were particularly annoying or repetitive, there was a skip button. I respected that you needed to make money and that you wanted to pay the content creators, and you respected my time.
But then you decided to flood the fucking platform and cut the revenue share with the creators. Without adblock, I can’t watch a 5 minute video without 5 minutes of ads. You’re trying to force me into paying for your premium service by annoying me to death.
Which I might do if I thought the people whose videos I actually like got a decent share of the revenue. But they don’t. Hell, at least one of my favorite YouTubers is regularly demonetized, so they wouldn’t see a penny.
So, YouTube, I’ll keep blocking ads and use services like Patreon to support my favorite YouTube folks the best I can. And if you won’t let me use adblock? Well, I guess I have to find some other way to occupy that hour or so a week I use your service, because I’m sure as shit not using half of it to watch ads that don’t benefit the people whose videos I enjoy.
ETA: this post contains hyperbole (https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hyperbole ).
Well achshuellly what you mean is hyberpolic. You see the two old men inside some random college discussing English had a fight and now it’s offensive to say hyperbole cause one of the guys died and the other won
Fuck YouTube. All my homies use PeerTube.
Well, at least in my dreams.
Ads allow YouTube to be used
You’re saying that as if it was a good thing…
Anti adblock-blocker-blocker time
Just get youtube premium if you don’t want ads. The people you watch deserve to be paid for their work
If you think people are getting paid by youtube then your are wrong. The amount per user is insignificant.
You can spend a $ directly to any creator you like and watch his channel ad free for the rest of your life and they have more money from you than they would get by ads from youtube
Its sad this is being downvoted. Ethically you should pay to use the service either through ads and personal data or subscription and personal data.
I don’t do either because I don’t like Google and don’t care about being Ethical to them. I understand why they would try and stop me and I’ve come to terms with the fact that I will have to give up youtube in the next decade.
@Fizz @Dindonmasker I pay for Youtube Premium.
I still run uBlock Origin on there to cull behind the scenes analytics, and block cross-site cookies from tracking me across the web.
If you’re talking ethics, I think the most important thing is that the user controls what their software does. YouTube videos are hosted on the web, and fundamentally people can choose how to display web sites on their own computer. Of course, if YouTube doesn’t like this it’s their prerogative to not host their content like that.
While I basically agree with what you’re saying, I’d also like to point out that the money they get from you watching ads is miniscule. I don’t remember which YouTuber it was, maybe Matthias Wandell, who said that if you donate just one dollar, that’s more than they’re ever going to profit from you watching ads.
