To get rid of the annoying YouTube message (ad blocker are not allowed on Youtube) use this custom filter in uBlock extension

  1. Open uBlock extension dashboard
  2. Open my filters tab
  3. Copy & Paste this code into my filter
  4. Apply changes and close all tabs

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  • chiliedogg@lemmy.worldEnglish
    414·
    1 year ago

    Just because a company is profitable it doesn’t mean they can’t ask users to pay for a service.

    I don’t love Alphabet either, but in their shoes I’d block ad filters too. YouTube is spectacularly expensive to run.

    • ilinamorato@lemmy.worldEnglish
      111·
      1 year ago

      Ok, I’m curious. Gonna do some math.

      • YouTube makes $30B/yr in revenue.
      • YouTube has 2.7B active users.
      • This means that YouTube is making about $11.11/person/year.
      • uBlockO has 10m active users.
      • This means that uBlockO is costing YouTube $111m annually, or about 4% of their overall revenue.

      I’ll admit, that number is bigger than I expected. But almost any other line item on their budget sheet would be bigger.

      ETA: it’s worth noting that YouTube has estimated operating costs of $5B, so this isn’t coming anywhere near making them unprofitable.