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I hope YouTube finds a way to just fully stop working for all ad blockers. Creators deserve to be paid, YouTube deserves to exist. 55% of revenue goes to creators.

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I do, but the creators still insist on adding sponsorships and putting other content on private platforms for yet an additional fee. I respect and support the work that goes into it, but my support has limits.

This plugin is scarily good (they have it for all browsers): https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/sponsorblock-for-yo...

I hope YouTube finds a way to just fully stop working. I'd really like to see the ad-driven internet go away. I'd rather see Nebula or any other no-ad platform do better and get more features.

None of the creators I follow have any complaints with adblock users, in fact they encourage the use of adblock. They're not making much of their money from those ads, and they're pretty fed up with Google's abusive bs.

They make most of their money from things like channel memberships, which do not involve as much of having to deal with Google's many ways of robbing creators of their money when it comes to advertising.

This is a terrible take. Creators get paid via sponsorships and patreon. Google does not deserve my eyeballs.

Creators also get paid by ads and by Premium subscriptions. A whole lot more than any other platform pays, and without gatekeeping to boot. As far as I know there are no other significant platforms except YouTube and Spotify that allows _anyone_ to try to make an income from their work without having to be vetted. I'd be happy to know of any other platforms.

Counter argument, no, THIS is a terrible take.

Hey man you watch all the ads you want but dont go around casting aspersions on the moral character of people who dont watch ads.

"How dare you Freeloaders not look at the ads in the newspaper?!?!? Dont you know Journalists get paid from those!?!?! Oh the mercy!?!?"

Its a free service. If its not a free service why are they offering it for free? I dont owe google anything and neither do you sir.

They aren't offering it for free. That's the entire point. It's offered ad-supported. You are so accustomed to theft you are incorrectly interpreting this.

You cannot steal something like youtube. Stealing would imply that you were taking it from somebody. Nobody loses anything when you pirate a movie. Nobody loses anything when you block ads. Taking a picture of the mona lisa doesnt take the mona lisa from anybody. Reading a free newspaper and not looking at the ads isnt stealing the newspaper. Listening to the radio and switching stations when ads come on isnt stealing the music. Watching TV and switching stations when ads come on isnt stealing the TV show.

You seem like you might be part of the population who are the kinds of people to get outraged when people fake drinking their verification cans.

What do you call sneaking into a movie theater or a magic show or other live performance? What do you call not paying for your ticket and still obtaining the value of the experience created?

I make videos, they cost me real money to make. When you steal views, you are costing me the money I should have been paid for your view to help cover those costs associated with entertaining you.

This isn't some moral puzzle, you are a thief.

See you make actually made a great point here! Take the movie theatre example. When a movie theatre shows a movie they dont let you in unless you buy a ticket. This is in contrast to Youtube where if you can connect to the address of the page the content will be streamed. If you want to charge per view of your videos then I suggest you find a different service to host them because that is just not how youtube works. Nothing is being stolen.

louis rossman on youtube premium https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Q3ZXQZZlcE

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I'm not going to watch that and give Rossman any revenue. Care to summarize what his argument is?

Even FBI recommends to block ads.

Why would they recommend that?

Because Google are happy to have ads to malicious stuff.

Not when Google is just doing a money grab and is doing a terrible job at filtering ads. They have some ads that are 1.5 hours long. That shouldn't be possible. I also recently reported an ad that was clearly AI generated content of Elon Musk doing a crypto scam. Report was ignored.

To be fair Elon Musk crypto scams are ignored even on Elon Musk's own platform.

Regardless of whether an ad is 5 seconds or 8 hours, you can skip it after the first 5 seconds.

On Android TV that's not always true - you sometimes get a batch of unskippable ads for 15 seconds or so

Eh. There isn’t enough on YT to be worth Premium. I subscribe to a bunch of streaming services, always paying the higher price to not watch ads. YT just doesn’t have anything worth the money.

The only reason I use it is because I work on vehicles as a hobby sometimes and people often put up a video of how to do some specific thing. They don’t get paid for it because it’s niche and views are too low, but I still have to sit through ads.

Also, I do not click on ads. In fact if I see something being advertised I immediately put it on my shit list for interrupting me and am LESS likely to buy the thing in the ad as a result. I know that’s not everyone, but I also don’t think I’m alone. Ads are a scourge. YT can bite the bullet and go subscription only and I am sure that would change a lot. But as is, it’s getting less usable every year while providing fairly marginal value to the users.

30 unstoppable seconds of ads every 1 minute of video, as well as ads that are inappropriate, scams or outright illegal.

People do deserve to get paid for their work. But the only way to safely browse is to block this shit. If Google did a halfway decent job of managing their ad network to keep the scum off, I’d consider turning off ad blocking.

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