If they didn't hire street-shitting jeets to do this, it could actually be a lot more insidious. If actually smart people were doing this instead of low-IQ Dhalits, they could actually exploit this so the couple banner ads might be something even intelligent people would succumb.
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I get that but, big butt, who is susceptible to advertising anyways unless you're a kid? And coppa prevents advertising to children. Not to brag but I'm so immune to advertising of any sort that I can't imagine people still get influenced by them to any extent. Any time I see an advertisement, I just try to dissect how it's trying to influence people or ignore it entirely. Are there people out there who are actual spendthrifts who have to get their credit card out every time they see an ad? If so then touche.
Youtube Premium isn't selling well because YouTube is a shitty service run by Indians and trannies where quality content cannot reliably be safe from arbitrary censorship. If they weren't busybody faggots with one of the worst content discovery systems on the face of the Internet, i would not mind paying a nominal monthly fee. I spend more on hosting game servers.
You'll be sorry when you're standing in a cat video line.
It's a fair bit more insidious than that. I'd imagine that a Kiwi Farmer like yourself is firmly in the "advertisement unfriendly" bucket but most people aren't Kiwi Farmers, sadly.
Advertisers have not been happy to bankroll everything - they're one of the major driving forces on why YouTube (and larger content creation) has struggled. They pay the way but that money comes with a list of demands (aka the crusade against porn and every "adpocalypse" that's hit every social media site) and they're going to dig deeper and deeper as the economy worsens and the companies need the ad dollars more and more.
. ReVanced is working perfectly fine for me, Brave + Ublock have been doing their thang, idk if they patched the Twitch adblocker that I used because I barely go there anymore. And any time these things break they get patched again and again. I never got that ad injection in the video itself that got featured a while back either.
If YouTube 'Premium' was actually a premium service it would be worth a few dollars a month. Ability to download any video and save it DRM free would be all that anyone would need. But downloading or copying information being prevented is practically the number one web engineering job currently. Want to copy some text from a site? Can't because of some script. Save image? Not possible without a workaround. Save video? Hope you are incredibly technologically proficient and have lots of free time to constantly figure out how to bypass content download restrictions every few months.
I don't feel that's a necessarily reasonable conclusion. Super bowl commercials are enjoyed because they're breaking up actual stretches where nothing interesting is happening in the game. In fact, from what I understand, the game itself will stop for commercial breaks. Just because they're high quality doesn't change how they're not what you actually want to see. Same goes for old TV commercials. Nostalgia or idle curiosity drives the views on those. People either didn't like them when they aired or only saw them as a charming novelty when TV was still a new thing and commercials didn't dominate their view time.
Advertising is faggy and all, but this is a pretty disingenous portrayal of the situation.
Its not because Im in the advertisement unfriendly bucket necessarily but it massively helps in being a cheapskate. I try to keep personal expenses at a minimum, as close to 0 as possible and I never buy anything unless I have to, like food. Anytime something fails I tend to fix it through any way I can. That way I never fall to the nudge. Even with food, Im so used to homecooked meals that I feel physically sick when I eat anything outside unless its like gourmet. I use Tor as a substitute for a VPN and I try to pirate everything as much as I can, avoiding all of those sale and sponsorship ads. So Im like the least susceptible to advertising of any sort and Im quite puzzled as to the point of advertising, I guess its something similar to what Jim Sterling describes as "being physically unable to stop the purchase".
Thats a shame, I use yt-dlp for all my archival and if its fucked, then Im fucked. Id better start gathering all the metokur and manga drawing videos I want.
If you're having trouble with yt-dlp I highly recommend using JDownloader2. It has a GUI and works out of the box. Since the latest update it hasn't had any issues downloading videos and downloading 4K VP9 videos currently works. You can add a bunch of video links and it will download them all at once. You'll need to login with cookies to download age-restricted videos.
