Did everyone observe a drastic increase in the ads on YouTube over the past month ? Is this just Google flexing it's monopoly and should we try to promote an open source alternative to prevent this ?
Yeah i hate it. Pushing their YouTube premium every time. We need more diversity as consumers. Monopoly in search, monopoly in video platform.
Yeah I’ve seen more ads for sure, and more unskippable ads too
They need to make money as well. Guess what. It’s better than amazon selling their shitty products on amazon.com with premium prices and luring customers to buy them by adding fake reviews. That’s more pathetic, op.
I guess selling people's data is a more noble pursuit lol
Where would open source code run? Who would prevent beheading videos from showing up?
Youtube has perfected their AI powered ad delivery to the point user experience is shitty. Now definitely people will watch alternatives.
For sure the ads have atleast doubled. I end up watching less videos now for this reason as the experience is quite poor. It's not even as if the video ads are relevant, lol. Even worse is they thrust ads even in the search results for past few months.
As soon as a viable alternative to Youtube appears, I will switch over for sure. Google Search also starts to show some bias / censorship that I can vaguely tell. Trying to search for some politically controversial research topic and all I saw on the first page were clear statements from the "correct" side while using the alternatives (Bing, Duckduckgo) will give me results from both sides. I even tuned the keywords to the "wrong" side but it didn't sway the Google results.
Yes I just run ad block
Youtube ads are not blocked by ad blocker I use. Which one is effective?
I use ublock origin on Firefox. If you use another ad blocker I think you need to check off block all ads or something
There's some blockchain based dapps like D.Tube and DLive, but it's too soon
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Lol and who’s going to pay for the hardware?