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by ThatMedicIsASpy 471 days ago
Youtube disrespects any person that is multilingual. They shove AI translations into our faces because the content creator is responsible for disabling it not the user. Instead of German videos I get German videos with English AI audio. I keep getting videos from the same game I always ignore or say not interested on my front page.

Youtube wants my money. They will never get my money when they come up with things like that. I will give them my money once they start cracking down on ads. And by that I mean actual moderated ads - not random ads with porn. As long as they serve scam ads I will never give them money - and it does not look like I will in my lifetime.
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pests 471 days ago
Paying them money removes all ads though, scammy or not. And they just announced their lower priced tier, although I think not all genres are ad-free.
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ThatMedicIsASpy 470 days ago
Ad blockers do the same and will be my choice. It is their choice to not moderate their main business. It is their choice to disable monetization on history, ..., people who say fuck in the first minute.

Is it that hard to look at all the BS and say - no not my money?

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hollerith 471 days ago
But most of the channels I'm interested in have "in video" ads (ads put there by the creator rather than Youtube, I don't know the industry terminology) that remain even if you pay for Youtube Premium.

I wish Premium provided some way for me to predict how many of these kinds of ads are in a video I am considering watching (e.g., by requiring the creator to tell YT how many there are and imposing consequences on creators that lie) but YT does not.

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pests 470 days ago
Those are sponser segments and I have no problem with them. These videos can be expensive to produce and these people need to support themselves still. If you take away or reduce their ad revenue, how do we expect them to survive?

There is an extension called SponserBlock that will automatically skip them and other marketing / time wastes. Otherwise I just skip ahead (the highest peak in the watch graph playbar at will usually be the end of the segment)

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hollerith 470 days ago
>If you take away or reduce their ad revenue, how do we expect them to survive?

I want YT to pay them out of what I pay for YT Premium.

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pests 470 days ago
They do, and its a pittance.
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hollerith 469 days ago
Where are you getting this information? Are you a YT creator?
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