not the first time capitalism asks you for money to solve problems capitalism created…
I’m astounded at how much is available on the internet at no/little cost. Think how valuable our data must be for them to continue providing it.
“We”? Who’s “we”? There is no “we”.I don’t pay YouTube shit
Back in the day most media was designed around commercial interruptions. Watch some old cartoons on Netflix, they often have “fade to black” moments after which the last 10 seconds are repeated. Nowadays commercials are algorithmically inserted into content to maximize viewership, meaning that more often then not a YouTube commercial will play right before the most important bit of the video.
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*and we block YouTube ads to not show ads
So you’re saying the audience for the ads have the people who are willing to pay for stuff, the very people the advertisers are paying to reach, removed from it.
I wonder how much longer this will do before the advertisers catch on to that.
YouTube keeps uBlock functioning to keep me going to their website.
Yes, but also, running Youtube costs about 10x as much as both are paying.
Now that I don’t believe
10x may be too much, but they’re definitely
losing money withspending money on it. Lots.Any source? Last I heard Alphabet was making mad bank
Now spending/ investing money I believe. But I bet you the hell that they are going to be using all of their YouTube data to train llms and probably sell that training data. At some point. There’s no way they won’t be making bank
Only if you didn’t count the data scraping for advertisement part.
The thing with advertising is that the advertisers make more money in product sales from people who watched ads than they spend telling YT to push their ads. That’s just how the advertising business works.
In other words, either the viewers pay youtube not to show ads, or the viewers pay the advertisers to pay youtube (in a roundabout way).
So it’s just you paying in both cases, unless you use an adblocker :)
PSA: firefox + ublock origin blocks youtube ads even on mobile (on android at least)
Yeah. That’s how it works. They get money either from serving you ads or exempting you from the ad service. Either way they get money.
Meanwhile YouTubers don’t get paid enough so they still show you their ads.
Well yes, that’s how they don’t go out of business. In theory.
Yes that’s how a company makes money…continue, you can do this!
