YouTube is waging a war against adblockers...and losing.
  • YouTube is intensifying efforts to combat adblockers, including blocking video playback and warning users of potential account suspension.
  • Increased ads on YouTube have driven many users to adblockers, hurting both YouTube’s ad revenue and content creators reliant on ad-based income.
  • Despite these measures, many users are leaving YouTube or finding workarounds, leading creators to seek alternative revenue streams off-platform.
  • limerod@reddthat.comEnglish
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    1 month ago

    Your whole existence revolves around peddling ads before people can watch the ads they want.

    Ah, what. Who wants or likes to watch ads at all?

    • bruhbeans@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      1 month ago

      I’ve clicked in to see a movie trailer, which is basically an ad, and had to watch an ad before I could watch the ad

    • rand_alpha19@moist.catsweat.com
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      1 month ago
      • Reviews
      • Trailers
      • Reactions
      • Travel vlogs
      • Beginner tutorials

      To some extent, these types of videos advertise or promote a product, service, or experience.

      • chakan2@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        1 month ago

        Yea…I’m old enough to remember when that was the content that paid for the platform. Putting an ad on top of that is fucking soulless vampic greed.

    • pete_the_cat@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      1 month ago

      A lot of creators have just turned into corporate shills. I stopped watching ETA Prime’s channel about tech reviews because it was becoming pretty clear that mostly everything he got was paid for by the company. Also, most creators are putting their own ads into their content.

      • Cephalotrocity@biglemmowski.winEnglish
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        1 month ago

        Welcome to Youtube. It’s ads all the way down. Unless:

        Firefox browser, Ublock Origin extension, Sponsorblock extension

        Save 40% of your viewing time for actual content and send tips through creator’s Paypal or whatever.

        • seaQueue@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          1 month ago

          YouTube is just on demand TV with extra steps these days. I’ve stopped watching videos, I have an LLM transcribe and summarize for me now. 99% of the content of a 10-15 minute video can be summarized into 1 or 2 pages and read in under 2 minutes.

          • med@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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            1 month ago

            I think I need this, finally a real use for ‘ai’.

            The amount of how to videos you have to watch through, when all you want is one little piece of info you should be able to search or scan for has been a problem since before the internet figured out how to increase clicks by making a web page in to slides.

            Can you link me a how-to video on how to get startedt and send me a summary from your working setup?

          • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
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            1 month ago

            I have an LLM transcribe and summarize for me now.

            Only a matter of time before LLMs start injecting their own ads into these responses.

            • seaQueue@lemmy.worldEnglish
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              1 month ago

              By that point I’m pretty sure we’ll have an effective compact model that can run locally and transcribe downloaded videos on reasonable hardware. Or you can just sic a paid model like chatgpt on the task. The corporate Internet is entirely focused on subscription service models now, unless you run the model yourself on local hardware you’re going to end up paying someone somewhere a service fee.