YouTube money grab ?

67Dart273 said

The problem is, some of the ads are the same **** over and over, and NONE of it is anything I'm interested in. YUP went through the same ****, a sort of timer appeared on the warning, counting down the days I have left, so I finally had to turn off AB.

Most annoying one is something about putting out a fire in a barbeque. Know what? It didn't work. I STILL don't know WTF they are selling!!

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Do you get to pick your ads on TV? I mean, I’d rather not watch an endless barrage of ads for diabetes medications, but that’s who’s buying the air time.

I didn’t say I liked it, but it is what it is. They’re a business, their goal is making money and ad revenue is how they do that. If you don’t want to watch the ads, you can pay for a subscription. If you don’t want to pay, well, you have to watch ads. And the ads are just who’s paying for the advertising.

It’s not any different than being a gold member here, the ads on the site pay for the servers, software, etc. If you don’t like all the ads and pop ups you pay a subscription. If you run an ad blocker you’re basically stealing a service. The difference is YouTube is a giant company and write their own software, so as people figure out ways to get service for free they’ll update their software to block it.