I don’t know anything about this so maybe someone could enlighten me, but how would/could YouTube have a sustainable business model? Server maintenance costs money right?
Btw I don’t support ads, I block them on all my computers and hopefully eventually on my TV with pihole if I can ever get it to work ;._.
Youtube was always operating at a loss. Fueld by Google advertising money.
This means they killed almost every competition.
Now they want to leverage their monopoly and make it profitable. This means you must have a subscription. The ads aren’t going to cut it. This will not pay the servers and shit. Only a subscription will do. However youtube aims for much gains so be ready to pay much more than needed.
The ads they now aggressively show of course pay some shit but the main goal seems to be being as annoying as possible to get people to pay for the subscription.
on smart TVs and such Youtube ads are blocked by using a special youtube app. there is SmartTubeNext for AndroidTV, NewPipe for Android, there is an adfree patched version of the normal youtube app (only available through the Homebrew Channel app catalog, or via manual install). there’s probably something like that for Samsung too. but maybe you could also use Freetube through the PC, or the youtube website with uBlock aorigin on Firefox.
I don’t know anything about this so maybe someone could enlighten me, but how would/could YouTube have a sustainable business model? Server maintenance costs money right?
Btw I don’t support ads, I block them on all my computers and hopefully eventually on my TV with pihole if I can ever get it to work ;._.
Youtube was always operating at a loss. Fueld by Google advertising money.
This means they killed almost every competition.
Now they want to leverage their monopoly and make it profitable. This means you must have a subscription. The ads aren’t going to cut it. This will not pay the servers and shit. Only a subscription will do. However youtube aims for much gains so be ready to pay much more than needed.
The ads they now aggressively show of course pay some shit but the main goal seems to be being as annoying as possible to get people to pay for the subscription.
pihole won’t block youtube ads. youtube ads are coming from the same domain.
what is your TV brand?
It’s a Samsung monitor iirc. Wanted to get something that didn’t require smart TV software to work.
does it have apps? or are you going to use a computer with it?
Rn I’m just using Apple TV apps. That’s where I folded along the privacy-convenience spectrum.
on smart TVs and such Youtube ads are blocked by using a special youtube app. there is SmartTubeNext for AndroidTV, NewPipe for Android, there is an adfree patched version of the normal youtube app (only available through the Homebrew Channel app catalog, or via manual install). there’s probably something like that for Samsung too. but maybe you could also use Freetube through the PC, or the youtube website with uBlock aorigin on Firefox.