PSA: Please stop watching ads on YouTube/the internet

[Duke Wy Lin]

Of course you can't live off Patreon money, because people don't fukk with you like that! People like you got lucky with a service like Youtube, they created an ecosystem where you can make a bit of money have a following while ultimately not being that popular or successful.

Many youtubers can have hundreds of thousands of subscribers and only get 10k-50k views but manage to stay afloat. That's cool but not at the expense of the user experience, the viewer is king if I don't like something no matter how petty it's up to the platform to accommodate me or be replaced. This is the problem with 'youtubers', they are short sighted content creators. Think about early Rooster Teeth or Giant Bomb, they were smart enough to build a site and host their own content, they had an alternative! They're not bytching about ad revenue because even when they were small they knew not to rely on another company for income. If you do, THAT'S ON YOU don't play this boo hoo watch my ads I'm a poor little creator, if you can't survive without youtube ads then you are not a true creator, you just happen to make some money on youtube.com and a time will come where that shyt is not viable anymore, companies are not immortal. And it's not our fault if you can't keep up.

This is all facts but still

Plus @Th3Birdman probably uses add-block his damn self

 

[melraH]

You know something is seriously wrong when people look forward to super bowl advertisements. I'm far from straight-edge or anything but even the constant liquor ads bother me, why would you not want to drink as a child watching this stuff.

Some stuff you don't notice until its gone ads are just and even going down a further hole with them Gambling advertisements.
And something that I was when thinking bout it.
Robocop, terminator, predator all Rated-R Violent ass movies with toys and video games and even cartoons aimed at kids

But the 80's was crazy fukk a GOT they Made a transformers movie and they Murked 90% of the autobots and like 40% of the decepticons to make way for new action figures for the new season I mean that movie was great and it was crazy but the way they did ma knikka optimus prime was just That shyt marked my childhood

thank God for parental locks, adblock, and firewalls lots of crazy stuff out there on the net and TV.

 

[melraH]

I need to check this out breh

You don't even need to get a raspberry pi to run it on your network (pi's with the chip shortages are expensive or hard to find at retail). You could use an old laptop or on your current pc if its on all the time you could run it off a Virtual Machine its fairly easy to make. That way you can test it out to see if it interest you to run all the time and save you the money.

 

[JLova]

These people exist?

 

[Deltron]

didn't see it mentioned, but sponsor block is a good addition too

 

[BobbyWojak]

Some stuff you don't notice until its gone ads are just and even going down a further hole with them Gambling advertisements.
And something that I was when thinking bout it.
Robocop, terminator, predator all Rated-R Violent ass movies with toys and video games and even cartoons aimed at kids

But the 80's was crazy fukk a GOT they Made a transformers movie and they Murked 90% of the autobots and like 40% of the decepticons to make way for new action figures for the new season I mean that movie was great and it was crazy but the way they did ma knikka optimus prime was just That shyt marked my childhood

thank God for parental locks, adblock, and firewalls lots of crazy stuff out there on the net and TV.

Lmao I always heard about that transformers movie hbomerguy on youtube has a great video about it, that along with the Street Fighter 2 movie are on my list of older animation films to watch

 

[melraH]

Lmao I always heard about that transformers movie hbomerguy on youtube has a great video about it, that along with the Street Fighter 2 movie are on my list of older animation films to watch

Its a Dope movie but I was 5 and a sweet summer child when it came out the first hour they wiped out the whole board I still vividly remember that I was eating breakfast and just stood up and said Noooooooooooooooooooo. First movie I bought on DVD thought great voice acting and soundtrack. And the violence cracking up was certainly a breath of fresh air.

 

[newarkhiphop]

Pi hole

 

[Duke Wy Lin]

Pi hole

 

[50CentStan]

I had ublock on chrome and my youtube still had ads between and during videos. Just not click ads while the video played

 

[BobbyWojak]

I had ublock on chrome and my youtube still had ads between and during videos. Just not click ads while the video played

first mistake was using chrome, vivaldi and brave have ad block built in

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[L&HH]

YT premium is not a dollar...


you might be right. people want to pay money for something they can get for free. it's a different time

Knowledge is power. They don’t know they can get it for free or where or how.

 

[null]

I created a Pi-Hole server to block ads on the network level

I haven't seen ads in a minute

which dns do you use breh? or do you block addresses manually / some other way?

 

[null]

Knowledge is power. They don’t know they can get it for free or where or how.

youtube premiun allows background play of videos in their phone app.

something which should be free anyway.

 

[Buddy]

Damn brehs I get it but some of us do have businesses and wanna reach you