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.
BIG NUMBER MUST GO UP
MUST APPEASE THE GOD OF CAPITALISM AND THE ALMIGHTY SHAREHOLDERS!
Ah yes, Capitalism.
Of course they don’t have enough money
The goal is (as always) to have all the money
How do you think they make that money? I mean yes it is an insane amount and do they need that much but they would still have ads.
This entire shitty ad model these companies have pushed onto the net needs to go. Seriously. Find a better way to monetize your world.
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.
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?
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.
So “pay or you don’t get shit” is okay, but “pay or see ads, your choice” is bad somehow?
Somehow? Paying to remove ads is rewarding ads thus causing more ads in the world. It’s not mysterious at all.
There are plenty of ways to not make it an all or nothing service, but that is at least the most straight forward. You could potentially give some of it away and then have to pay for the rest. Or have some stuff for free and more premium content is paid for. Or perhaps based on bandwidth with video quality / resolution.
Anything that is not ads is going to be an improvement.
Pay me a subscription or I’ll shit on your doorstep every morning. Don’t complain, there’s a choice.
All those are fine suggestions, but a “free with ads” option isn’t that bad either; the real problem isn’t the ads themselves. The real problem is how intrusive the ads are, how many of them there are, as well as much information they (and YouTube) collect on you. Plus, in this case, the company in question isn’t exactly a small company who is financially struggling. It’s the classic capitalist problem of “infinite growth”, where your profits have to be constantly increasing.
But there’s nothing inherently wrong about the idea of having ads, just like there’s nothing inherently wrong about youtubers having sponsors.
That’s a fine opinion, but I happen to disagree.
It’s not pay or remove ads. It is pay to give us the money that we need to run our business or we will use ads to get that much money
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.
What everyone else said but also they still collect and do whatever they want with your data even if you pay them. They purposely made everything more shitty and then charged to put it back to how it was originally. Also, they stayed free as long as they did to kill off the competition and it clearly worked. I just can’t ever justify giving them money. Especially with the double dip on my data.
Like charging a fee?
Make it possible to get Premium without YT music bolted on it.
Believe it or not Google: Some users don’t want it or already have a platform.I’ve been around since YT red, and while Google Play Music was a better app, I am OK with YT music and primarily watch YT over the other sites and yt music is all I listen to in the house or car. So, while not cheap $22/mo for premium family fits my needs.
I’d be OK if yt allowed me to skip/blocked sponsored ads too. At least on PC sponsor block works well. For my TV its a few more hoops to get that there, which I haven’t done. Not terrible to ffw across them
I’m not paying them a penny either way, but if you’re going to, wouldn’t you want more features for your money, even if you don’t use them? Or are you suggesting they charge less for a subscription sans music?
Less money and remove music
Aka Youtube Lite Edition.The bomb is, that Youtube wants for Lite Edition money and still serves “limited” ads.
lmao.
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Yeah. Nah.
I shouldn’t have to watch any ads on an already-profitable product. Accepting less is just me lowering my standards so people richer than me can be even richer.
How dare you try to bridle unbridled capitalism
Huh that doesn’t make anysense? Youtube is profitable because of ads. It’s not like it has a secrete revenue source and the ads are just gravy on top.
They are profitable because they data mine the shit out of you. And now they want you to pay them so they can continue doing it.
Huh that doesn’t make anysense?
I mean, if you use your brain it makes perfect sense.
I don’t watch ads. Youtube is profitable. I shouldn’t have to watch ads on an already-profitable product.
Accepting less is just me lowering my standards so people richer than me can be even richer.
Might wanna brush up on that reading comprehension, lol.
How long until youtube add an anti-anti-anti-adblocker?
Who blocks the blocker?
Let the cat and mouse games begin!!! Thanks for the heads up though
I miss 3 days ago when the blockade was just some HTML
Get your FreeTube subs set up and ready to go. https://freetubeapp.io/
Anytime you all want to go back to making your own websites
Anytime
Semi-related: what’s a good frontend for android TV? I’m loving NewPipe on my phone, but on the TV it refuses to work in full screen and often in not-full screen too…
SmartTubeNext is your best bet, I think Libretube devs will be working on landscape support too sometime, but that’s probably very far away
Thanks, it’s working great so far! 🫶
Glad you’re liking it!
From my experience, LibreTube simply doesn’t work without a kbm. I couldn’t even select an instance using the TV controller.
Maybe Kodi works? It does on the FireTV Stick, as long as you can install apps from play store, you’re good.
Is the any way to add something like this to my pihole to block all this shit network wide?
Pihole, if i understand correctly, works by blocking DNS requests and YouTube ads are not DNS based the way ads usually are. You’re stuck blocking them by uBO on each device or use Invidious.
Does that stop YT from knowing you’re using an as block?
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as of now the 3rd code option works for me, first 2 didnt
Many thanks!
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