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I watched Youtube for 40mins...
- Thread starter MilesQ
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I mean its free, unless you are watching something from a big company you are taking money out of peoples pockets.
that number is misleading, with the way youtube handles loading pages, the adblock counter does not usually reset properly
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About six vids in total, they were reviews for a phone I'm thinking about getting.
I didn't say stealing. I'm just saying it's not really fair to complain when the ads are paying the youtube creators bills (again assuming its not a big media company)
I don't use an adblocker and 70 ads over 6 videos would not happen. The most I've seen is probably 3 ads over a 20+ minute video.
its not, adblock is blocking more than just visible ads
I'm pretty sure YT has got to be the most expensive website to run on the internet. Millions of video views per day and it's just ad supported. People that are shocked by ads or annoyed are just out of touch. "Why doesn't someone make a YT competitor?!?!" Because it's insane how much it costs to run.
this is the same kind of backward thinking that causes companies to force users screens to be active in order to listen to audio. All that wasted energy comes from somewhere, but the most important thing is that companies are allowed to force users screens to be active because that's their intention for the user unless the user wants to pay more.
because that 10 cents per ad view is really, you know...good stuff.
Well they have Red now right? No clue on how much of a revenue generator that is though.
I don't think it's that bad. I had YouTube Red for a while and, sure, it was nice to be able to queue up a bunch of videos to my Chromecast without any ads. However, I ended up thinking it was more worth it to keep the $10 in my pocket than experience ad-free YouTube and Google Music.
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Even putting that aside, it's not always blocking a single ad each time. After watching say an episode of TNG on Netflix, I'll see it blocked 20+ requests.
Red isn't even expensive. Just drop ten for it every month and you'll be helping your favorite creators a ton. Plus you get Google Music which is awesome.
You do know that there's other ways to contribute to a creator without being interrupted by ads every twenty seconds
Does YT red really pay smaller channels? What about foreign content? I don't trust YT a thing with that.
iirc the more you watch a certain channel the more that that channel gets from your sub
Do you have any privacy filters installed via ABP? It's probably just Google being stopped from phoning home repeatedly. Heck, even just the adblocking filters could result in that if it's trying to reach Doubleclick's servers
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To help put things into perspective, here's the number of Things™ blocked after watching a three minute video:
(While preparing the screenshot, uploading it, and typing this post, the number climbed to 63.)
Clearly, 56 ads wouldn't have played during that video. It's "just" 56 attempts to reach something that the adblocker is set to block.
Edit:
To help put things into perspective, here's the number of Things™ blocked after watching a three minute video:
(While preparing the screenshot, uploading it, and typing this post, the number climbed to 63.)
Clearly, 56 ads wouldn't have played during that video. It's "just" 56 attempts to reach something that the adblocker is set to block.
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What does it provide other than no ads? I saw a commercial for some Youtube Red production, some movie with that tall white dude with the bad hair cut, you know the one, and I honestly couldn't tell if it was real or another one of his joke videos.
ABP had been bought out by a corporate company. UBlock uses way less RAM and it's still property of it's owner.
Supposedly exclusive content but it's beyond my level of caring.
I never want to see an ad on YouTube, and this accomplishes that. On every platform. I probably watch a couple hours worth a day.
You can leave videos playing in the background on your phone. It's great for music.
It's also a free tweak if you have a jailbroken iPhone.
Youtube Red exists in like five countries. A lot of people can't pay for it, even if they wanted to.
The number is super misleading, adblockers generally count the number of blocked HTTP requests. On page load it'll probably block a bunch of static ads and, depending on your filters, maybe also some tracking scripts on the page in addition to the ads themselves.
is that why comments from one video tend to bleed into comments from other videos if you are on a playlist or click a recommended video on the side? or is that some weird thing one of my extensions is accidentally doing?
I block ads so the page loads faster, as a layer of anti virus protection and so I am not wasting my time for for pointless advert to finish loading and playing.
No what? Did you accidentally ad block a comprehensive comment?
