YouTube to run ads on videos, monetized or not

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If its hatemongers like Milo and Bannon, yes- but otherwise it’s elitism speaking there.

Facebook and Instagram are both owned by Zuck. Twitter is a medium for the loudest inane voice. I want nothing to do with any of those 3.

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I have never, ever in my life, seen one single ad on YouTube.
Firefox, people. + Adblocker Ultimate
Both free.
Go thou, and do likewise.

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As someone who makes my living as a YouTuber, I can assure you there is no viable alternative. It doesn’t matter how much one might like to wish there was. Nowhere else has the features, the organic traffic, the SEO, or the community building tools that YT does.

This is how monopolies get entrenched, of course, but I’m not going to throw away the business I’ve spent years building on some vague protest principle about anti-trust.

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This is even the classic monopoly move. It’s the same as Amazon Basics forcing goods of its own market to force ads on all videos regardless of creator intent, and there’s still no other place to post videos with viable traffic so much like you pretty much have to use Amazon you have to use YouTube (i.e. it’s unreasonable to require the common person to not use it).

There’s no good way to detangle the mess either because it has grown so unchecked for so long much like the other tech giant platforms.

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For sure! It’s the classic case for government intervention. You need an external authority to break this interlocking stalemate of customer dependency and the “chicken and egg” problem that blocks new competitors.

I would dearly love to have a second option to share my content so that I don’t have too many eggs in the YouTube basket, but until government comes in and does what they did for Standard Oil, Ma Bell, and all the others (back when anti-trust actually got enforced in this country), we’ll be stuck.

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Youtube has ads? Who knew etc…

I would dearly love a proper alternative to their data snaffling surveillance but i suspect creating a spunky upstart video sharing service these days without an army of copyright lawyers to hand is likely doomed from the start. “Regulate us!” they say, knowing that only megacorps with the resources of G and Fb could ever hope to comply and entrenching them in perpetuity.

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And Dailymotion.

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youtube has ads? if you’re seeing repeated offers for garbage on youtube, lmgtfy

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I was already planning on making a pi-hole, but it looks like it has jumped up my list of priorities.

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Sooo… only Vimeo, then? I’m not sure that their feature set is remotely comparable, but at least they’re a video host, unlike the others. Facebook is a non-starter, Twitter is infamous for destroying videos with compression (I assume there are also severe size limits), Instagram requires you to have an account to see anything (and it’s barely functional as a video host anyways).

Now we’re at the point where video hosts need to have copyright filters to be allowed to exist, and that keeps new competition from existing, too.

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I too have been fortunate to exist ad free for a decade or so.

  • Firefox and uBlock Origin on laptop.
  • Trying Brave on the iMoan but happy to forego browsing on the thing altogether.

What I would love to know but have some trouble trying to gauge is:

  • If and how my adblocking effects content creators I wish to support (websites and patreon/youtube)
  • If and when there are any safe, secure, and hassle free alternatives to youtube and facebook.
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This pisses me off no end. I have to assume being an Insta account holder one has a far better experience but for those of us without it’s terrible but then Fb are consolidating all their services into one, right? See also Oculus Quest. I can’t even see an Insta post through a VPN without it redirecting to the login page, although embeds seem to work.

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If this helps you and @Shuck , when I right-click on an instagram picture/story and open in a new tab on Firefox I can still see the content.

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Huh, don’t think i’ve tried that. Thanks.

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Great. Just started uploading our podcasts to YT.

Guess I’ll look at Vimeo instead?

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I had an account before FB absorbed them, so I just gave up and let one of my browsers be contaminated with Instagram. (The problem with Instagram is, looking at someone’s account, you can’t even see the links to content if you don’t have an account yourself - someone has to embed a link somewhere else for you to see it.)

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I got frustrated by the same thing a few months back. (I haven’t done FB in a decade and Insta ever).

I stumbled across this workaround recently. If it’s an insta homepage you can get to or have bookmarked (in my case) I can right click on the story, open in a new tab, and watch/play the content.

If I just left click I get the window demanding I join.
Give it a go. I don’t know how long we’ll get away with it for…

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On Firefox, if I scroll down someone’s Insta homepage, I eventually get a “join to see more” overlay that stops me from doing anything. But weirdly Firefox does allow me to scroll down and see a lot more links than with other browsers, it seems.

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No one should be surprised at this.

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