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Re:Ask HN: Why there are so many ads on YouTube? by lambda_obrien on Friday March 19, 2021 @11:39PM (#26520635)
No, literally youtube had ads which just said things like, "does your kid hate it when youtube has commercials? Does it annoy you when they scream because of that? Pay us to remove them!"

It works be one thing to advertise a service or product, but they just put ads in to literally annoy you into paying. I'm not kidding.

I WAS a YouTube premium member until recently, but dropped it because of crap like this.

I know there's no free lunch, my comment was about the way youtube does business: it's a dick move to annoy users into paying you. How is that worth a tnstaafl reply?

I wonder if the world has passed me by when I think that I'm taking a stand against corporate greed and bullshit and everyone else happily goes along with whatever.

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Re:Ask HN: Why there are so many ads on YouTube? by kleer001 on Saturday March 20, 2021 @05:35PM (#26526234)
> I WAS a YouTube premium member until recently, but dropped it because of crap like this.

That doesn't follow.

How would you see ads if you're a YTP member? You standing up for a freeloader? Their annoyance is your annoyance?

> it's a dick move to annoy users into paying you

What else should they be doing? You an advertising genius? Maybe cut off free youtube entirely? Only a free hour a day? Show me someone else that's in the same situation, by order of magnitude, and doing a better job by your standards.

Come back to reality, mate. Server bills (repair, licensing, etc) and rent and people running the servers and dear god so much else needs to be paid. YT is providing a service, a service that ain't free.

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Re:Ask HN: Why there are so many ads on YouTube? by tubularhells on Saturday March 20, 2021 @11:00AM (#26523639)
Why don't you use an adblocker?
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Re:Ask HN: Why there are so many ads on YouTube? by lambda_obrien on Saturday March 20, 2021 @01:27PM (#26524581)
Frankly, I hate dealing with tech outside of work and I would have to pihole my TV.
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Re:Ask HN: Why there are so many ads on YouTube? by cyrrus on Sunday March 21, 2021 @05:04PM (#26534033)
I don’t think pihole blocks YouTube ads because they originate from their own server
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Re:Ask HN: Why there are so many ads on YouTube? by lambda_obrien on Monday March 22, 2021 @03:50AM (#26537890)
There ya go, hehe, I wouldn't want to deal with it.
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