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Show HN: Tell YouTube Ads to Fuck Off

by galuggus on 10/17/23, 11:40 AM with 88 comments

  • by masukomi on 10/17/23, 12:12 PM

    You know there aren't ads if you actually pay for it right?

    I agree the ads are obnoxious, but hosting YouTube is incredibly expensive, and online ads are incredibly cheap so... Even if they _weren't_ being greedy there would need to be A LOT of ads to compensate for the hosting & engineering costs.

    Like... If you hate the ads THAT MUCH, but want to continue using the service, why not just pay for the service?

    (side note: you also get streaming music (YouTube Music) when you pay for YouTube which is a nice bonus.)

  • by sun_har on 10/17/23, 12:08 PM

    Am I the only one that is a little turned off by how everyone feels they deserve everything for free?

  • by preya2k on 10/17/23, 12:12 PM

    The irony of a website for an ad-blocking extension showing it's own Ad (blocking modal for the author's side project).

  • by zecg on 10/17/23, 11:51 AM

    Note: you have to disable Ublock Origin in order to be able to use this.

  • by infecto on 10/17/23, 12:18 PM

    Whats the alternative to YouTube then? I get it, some people really don't like ads and especially do not like Google's data collection tactics. Whats the alternative then, in the YouTube model they need to pay the creator, pay for the associated costs of running the site and pay themselves. Lets not even go down the road that they already make so much money that they could play less ads or do xyz, I don't think that is a constructive argument.

    I learned of an alternative recently, Nebula. One issue there is discovery, I consume a bit of youtube and had never heard of it before. The only reason I noticed it was Strange Parts mentioned it in his last episode and that he posted a new video there that will not show up on youtube for a bit. The first problem is discovery. YouTube is really great for content creators as they can get discovered with the massive amount of viewership.

    The second problem is how much it pays. I tried to get a better idea of Nebula's model but this recent thread with the founder really did not answer the question for me. Felt like a redirection then just getting down into the economics of it. I would be curious what the actual per viewer income is between the two. We can immediately assume though that YouTube is paying more in total. They have the network with all the viewers.

    https://www.reddit.com/r/Nebula/comments/16qeup8/does_nebula...

    At the end of the day I would happily use something else but imo there really is nothing else that exactly serves the purpose. The majority of content creators are on YouTube in some form with only a very minority that have totally left it and done their own thing.

  • by mooncakes_ooohh on 10/17/23, 11:52 AM

    It's a pity that using uBlock Origin means I'll never see this.

  • by gnuj3 on 10/17/23, 11:53 AM

    What ads is he talking about?

  • by joshfarrant on 10/17/23, 12:13 PM

    YouTube charge different amounts for Premium in different currencies.

    If you appear to be purchasing from Turkey (Türkiye), for example, then you’ll only be paying 29.99 Turkish Lira, or about £0.90, per month.

    Well worth it for an ad-free experience (and picture-in-picture) in the native app imo.

  • by drcongo on 10/17/23, 12:09 PM

    This YouTube war on adblockers is going well isn't it.

  • by thrownaway561 on 10/17/23, 12:12 PM

    this literally is the dumbest things i've ever seen. I'm surprised this even got attention on hacker news.

  • by neonihil on 10/17/23, 11:54 AM

    Loving this.

  • by artursapek on 10/17/23, 11:49 AM

    Pay for YouTube. It’s worth it.

  • by stefanos82 on 10/17/23, 11:56 AM

    I wonder what could happen should they paywall it instead.

    How many would they continue using it, 5%? ~20% max the most?

  • by RektBoy on 10/17/23, 12:02 PM

    .

  • by carabiner on 10/17/23, 12:11 PM

    wow so edgy

  • by b3lvedere on 10/17/23, 11:52 AM

    "What does this do?

    It replaces the text 'skip ads' with 'Fuck Off'. That's it "

    Okay then. Fun for 30 seconds. :)