YouTube is increasing Premium prices in multiple countries, right after an ad-blocker crackdown | You either pay rightfully for the video content you consume, or you live with the ads.::Google is increasing the prices of YouTube Premium and YouTube Music Premium subscriptions in some regions, right after blocking ad-blockers.
No mention of revanced? It's a great option, has sponsorblock and all
I feel like I'm experiencing deja vu. Wasn't there a thread just like this yesterday?
Edit: There was!
They seem to be increasing in frequency. If this is only the second one you've seen in the last 24h then you're lucky.
ReVanced is by far one of the best solutions.
I have a question for people using sponsorblock. Why? How do you expect a content creator to pay the bills? I use an adblock because fuck Google but content creators pick up sponsorships specifically because YT pays like shit.
I'm only speaking for myself here, and I'm certain you're not going to like the answer I have to offer. That's not my problem. I don't like being advertised to. I don't like others telling me what I'll like or what to do. I'm a monster, I know, I also take pee breaks when commercials come on tv as well and I usually arrive late to movies so I can skip the previews.
Seriously though, I really don't care how they pay their bills, they're a dancing monkey on the sidewalk that I enjoy for a couple minutes and move on. If they can't afford to keep making content and quit, I'll just move onto the next channel that's still producing. It'll never run out, just like there's always going to be someone who sits through the ads or actually buys whatever their shilling. At the end of the day, it's their responsibility to make sure their shits handled, not mine. If they can't pay their bills, they should probably do something that offers a more steady income stream.im not obligated to give them my time in exchange for them getting money. They get my time in exchange for me being entertained, that's it. Maybe if they made content for enjoyment instead of money, they'd make better content.
Before we get to name calling, I am fully aware that this is a shit take, but it's the truth. I'm a cynic and I'm not very fun at parties either
10000% this. I don't give a shit how you make money. YouTube started out as a place to let people show off to the world. It was wholesome. It was a community. Then they started paying people for views and it got perverted into this capitalist hellscape we have now where the most popular channels are garbage spewed out by content farms that exist to game an algorithm. Where the highest earners can commit literal crimes and get a slap on the wrist because Google wants the ad revenue their views bring in. This is not a community of the "you" the end users who just want to share interesting hobbies and funny clips with the world. Put the "you" back in YouTube.
Exactly!! I've been on the Internet for a long time. I remember the pre-youtube days. Way back when the Internet wasn't exactly profitable. That meant that the content you found was genuinely made just to share something. I remember the early days of YouTube where people were just making cool shit. A good example, and I understand people have opinions that differ, would be RoosterTeeth. Started as just friends making funny shit, and they did separate shit for money to support making the fun stuff. Now, they're a very different company owned by a mega corporation. They exist to produce favorable content and farm views. With the way that shit goes viral nowadays, there isn't really a chance for small communities to exist before whatever space it is eventually explodes. I'm not saying small communities don't exist, but there's a big difference between what was and what's become. Everything's so much more commercial and purely for the intent of clout or money. People are actively trying to meet KPIs to satisfy arbitrary algorithms. Just go back to making entertaining captivating content.
I love basement dwellers. Moms cooking, pops paying the internet bills and he thinks he's not going to see ads with his hands on cheetos, watching Netflix and ordering on food delivery app he subliminally remembers. But they were totally not from the ads.
That's an awful lot of assumptions and insults coming through to someone who's just answering the question honestly. I'm not naive enough to think I'm advertisement proof, I just get tired of them and avoid them where I can. I'm failing to see what your point is
They're already getting paid for putting it in their video. Sometimes the sponsorships are on a "per signups" basis and I have never once come across a YouTube sponsorship for something that I would actually have a use for. They're either already getting paid or they weren't getting my money anyway so I might as well skip it. I don't need to hear a pitch for something I don't want/need
I don't care who's serving the ads, I don't want to watch ads period. I will pay for the content where possible though. I dont think youtube taking 45% considering the crazy infrastructure provided is that strange. Maybe 45% is still too much, but i don't think 55% sounds like "shit".
I forgot that the people I watch are far less mainstream. They survive on Patreon and sponsorships because they're constantly demonetized, thus my perception it pays shit.
Counter-ask: how does watching the sponsored content help them?
They've been paid initially, people who use sponsor block are way less likely to sign up for the service.
Watching it does literally nothing for them if you don't sign up… The sponsor won't even see metrics of who skipped the sponsored portion
It just seems like overkill to me tbh. The content creators I watch need sponsors to get by, so I'll take a peek at what they're offering in good faith. If I don't like it I just skip to the end of the bit, or leave the video since a few put them at the end. You're not messing with corporate profits or anything.
Most ads are for products in another country so even if I hypothetically wanted it I can't get it so why waste my time on it. And if they are multinational companies I usually don't want anything to do with it. I also just don't want to be advertised to. It's wasting my time because 99.99% of the time it's irrelevant to me.
YT does not pay like shit. A lot of the time sponsorships are much more targeted and interesting than YouTube ads.
That being said I mainly dislike bad ads. Good, well targeted ads that don't destroy your eardrums for products that interest me seem nice. But they don't tend to exist.