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Re:Does uBlock Origin (uBO) currently bypass YouTube's adblo... by jacquesm on Wednesday December 06, 2023 @08:20AM (#38543486)
To know whether that is unreasonable or not you'd have to compare it to the cost of providing you that service, taking into account that youtube is just a delivery mechanism and so is infrastructure, not content.

And what is or is not affordable is really dependent on where you live and that kind of money is a very large amount in some places. And especially in those places access to youtube for educational purposes can be quite important.

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Re:Does uBlock Origin (uBO) currently bypass YouTube's adblo... by dageshi on Wednesday December 06, 2023 @08:28AM (#38543577)
Youtube premium also pays out the content creators you watch in lieu of the ads you don't watch does it not? At least that was my understanding.

If so it's not just the infrastructure cost which itself is not trivial for a site like youtube.

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Re:Does uBlock Origin (uBO) currently bypass YouTube's adblo... by jacquesm on Wednesday December 06, 2023 @09:34AM (#38544378)
Infrastructure costs are such that they're a rounding error on the total google budget.
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Re:Does uBlock Origin (uBO) currently bypass YouTube's adblo... by tmtvl on Wednesday December 06, 2023 @03:23PM (#38548993)
With all respect, do you have a source for that? I thought Alphabet was losing money hand over fist on YT before they started being so aggressive with the ads.
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Re:Does uBlock Origin (uBO) currently bypass YouTube's adblo... by jacquesm on Wednesday December 06, 2023 @03:52PM (#38549316)
Let's for the moment assume that you are right, then they shouldn't have bought it in ... 2006, all of 17 years ago. And if they are short of money why are they pushing more and more junk on people? Let's start with switching off autoplay by default, limiting videos to 640x480, and offering creators to pay for the hosting so that their video can be shipped, just like I pay for the hosting of my web servers.

Their whole position is horribly inconsistent.

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Re:Does uBlock Origin (uBO) currently bypass YouTube's adblo... by random_mutex on Wednesday December 06, 2023 @04:28PM (#38549722)
Were they losing or weren't they making enough to satisfy their greed?
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Re:Does uBlock Origin (uBO) currently bypass YouTube's adblo... by ryanjshaw on Wednesday December 06, 2023 @10:00AM (#38544693)
Why would the cost of providing YT be relevant? I look at the value I get, and YT Premium is a no brainer.

Here in South Africa YT Premium Family is R109.99/mo (5.83 USD). By comparison, Netflix is R159/mo. Minimum wage is R25.42/hr.

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Re:Does uBlock Origin (uBO) currently bypass YouTube's adblo... by jacquesm on Wednesday December 06, 2023 @11:13AM (#38545820)
Because infrastructure is cost+, Neflix gives you content that they have the rights to.
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