To get rid of the annoying YouTube message (ad blocker are not allowed on Youtube) use this custom filter in uBlock extension

  1. Open uBlock extension dashboard
  2. Open my filters tab
  3. Copy & Paste this code into my filter
  4. Apply changes and close all tabs

via: enderman

  • Queue@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    3·
    9 months ago

    https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/GOOG/alphabet/gross-profit

    Alphabet gross profit for the quarter ending June 30, 2023 was $42.688B, a 7.85% increase year-over-year.

    Alphabet gross profit for the twelve months ending June 30, 2023 was $160.503B, a 1.7% increase year-over-year.

    Alphabet annual gross profit for 2022 was $156.633B, a 6.77% increase from 2021.

    Alphabet annual gross profit for 2021 was $146.698B, a 50.01% increase from 2020.

    Alphabet annual gross profit for 2020 was $97.795B, a 8.71% increase from 2019.

    Huh, they seemingly have money to not fuck our eyes without lube for ads, but I guess they somehow just don’t have enough money, 156 billion dollars is really nothing after all. Probably more money in between my couch cushions. Such a small indie company that has to struggle to remain afloat, like an Etsy store.

  • meseek #2982@lemmy.caEnglish
    2·
    9 months ago

    This entire shitty ad model these companies have pushed onto the net needs to go. Seriously. Find a better way to monetize your world.

    • iHUNTcriminals@lemm.eeEnglish
      1·
      9 months ago

      It’s not even just the Internet. Marketing fucks up every aspect of our civilization. We can’t even handle having a professional election anymore without trashy ads and people acting like children. You can’t even watch legitimate news anymore. …nevermind mind whack kids pranking people on YouTube being used and turning into assholes for YouTube monetization.

    • Norgur@kbin.social
      1·
      9 months ago

      This answer confuses me. The message on that pop up is “buy YouTube premium, so you won’t be stuck in our ad supported model” and now we’re ranting that they need to find another model to finance themselves? Isn’t YouTube premium exactly that?

      • Izzy@lemmy.mlEnglish
        1·
        9 months ago

        Paying to remove ads is part of the ad business model. Upset your customer enough until they give you money to make it stop. Once you pay to remove the ads you have rewarded them for implementing ads which lets them know that implementing ads was a great way at making money.

        So YouTube premium is not another model. It is the same model. Another model is paying for a service that never had ads at all such as NebulaTV or CuriosityStream.

      • Kuro@lemm.eeEnglish
        1·
        9 months ago

        You’re right, but premium is too expensive. They make a pittance per ad view, but expect a user to pay $14/m to get rid of them? The math doesn’t math.