Comment on As a long-time user hearing YouTube wants to play ads when I pause a video

drkt@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• GrymEdm@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I actually had trouble finding that out. It’s apparently a closely-guarded secret according to some tech websites. I do have this chart that says since 2017 YouTube ad revenue has been 7-11% of Google’s total revenue but I don’t know if that = profit.

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  • TxzK@lemmy.zip ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    “I have ads blocked on PC but still see them on my phone.”

    If you’re on Android, ReVanced. And if you’re on iOS, well get fucked or something, idk

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    • drkt@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I just use Firefox with extensions on mobile honestly

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      • danafest@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Yeah I completely gave up on the app. Firefox with ublock is a blessing, internet in general is basically unusable on mobile without it.

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    • Evilschnuff@feddit.de ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      In iOS you can use Yattee and link to an alternative Frontend. Works well for me.

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      • slaacaa@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I use adguard on ios, also a vpn btw, and blocks all ads in browser and blocks ads in yt videos in their app. Used yattee for a bit, but tbh I didn’t like the UX, then it stopped working so I switched

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      • JTheFox@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Seconded on this one. I use Yattee with Piped as my frontend, with an account as well, and it’s been pretty solid so far.

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      • mryessir@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        He explicitly told you to get lost or something, dude!

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      • doubletandard@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        didn’t work for piped.video and yewtu.be. which front end are you using?

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    • Twitches@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      You just got me free music, I couldn’t afford it anymore so I have to drop it. Thank you

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    • pineapplelover@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      On ios there’s brave browser and firefox focus.

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    • FeatherConstrictor@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I’ve been using revanced for a year and something happened in the past couple of weeks where it just refuses to work and keeps sayi go there’s no internet connection :( I have uninstalled and reinstalled/patched things as per instructions and nothing.

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  • splonglo@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Youtube has always claimed that it doesn’t turn a profit but I don’t believe them. My reasoning is that if the server costs are more than the revenue today, then they’re going to be worse tomorrow. A gorillian gigabytes of data are uploaded to that thing every nanosecond. A company can’t get exponentially less profitable every second and still survive. And what else is there to prop it up? Google ad results? No way is Youtube not profitable. They’re saying that to avoid tax.

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  • magic_lobster_party@kbin.run ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Hosting a streaming service is incredibly expensive. Especially at the scale of YouTube. I can imagine YouTube is costing far more for Google than Search itself.

    My guess is that YouTube has never really been profitable, which is why they’re pushing users to buy Premium.

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  • umbrella@lemmy.ml ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    get firefox with ublock origin. block that garbage on mobile too.

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  • Legend@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Just use any app like newpipe or pipepipe

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• unreasonabro@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Given the tech turnover rate at google (the rate at which they kill products) the answer is most probably yes.

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