• YouTube is intensifying efforts to combat adblockers, including blocking video playback and warning users of potential account suspension.
  • Increased ads on YouTube have driven many users to adblockers, hurting both YouTube’s ad revenue and content creators reliant on ad-based income.
  • Despite these measures, many users are leaving YouTube or finding workarounds, leading creators to seek alternative revenue streams off-platform.
  • Cephalotrocity@biglemmowski.winEnglish
    571·
    2 months ago

    Welcome to Youtube. It’s ads all the way down. Unless:

    Firefox browser, Ublock Origin extension, Sponsorblock extension

    Save 40% of your viewing time for actual content and send tips through creator’s Paypal or whatever.

    • seaQueue@lemmy.worldEnglish
      156·
      2 months ago

      YouTube is just on demand TV with extra steps these days. I’ve stopped watching videos, I have an LLM transcribe and summarize for me now. 99% of the content of a 10-15 minute video can be summarized into 1 or 2 pages and read in under 2 minutes.

      • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
        251·
        2 months ago

        I have an LLM transcribe and summarize for me now.

        Only a matter of time before LLMs start injecting their own ads into these responses.

        • Pennomi@lemmy.worldEnglish
          72·
          2 months ago

          Nah, local LLMs are easily in the range of transcribe/summarize. I bet you could do that nicely with llama 8B without even needing a gpu.

            • Gigasser@lemmy.worldEnglish
              5·
              2 months ago

              You already can I think? Ollama is something you can install, and then you can set up a webui like sillytavern for roleplays, or some other more fitting ui for whatever you want. Also, Linux is great for projects like these, on windows it’s fucking a pain to set up, Linux it’s easy.

        • seaQueue@lemmy.worldEnglish
          41·
          2 months ago

          By that point I’m pretty sure we’ll have an effective compact model that can run locally and transcribe downloaded videos on reasonable hardware. Or you can just sic a paid model like chatgpt on the task. The corporate Internet is entirely focused on subscription service models now, unless you run the model yourself on local hardware you’re going to end up paying someone somewhere a service fee.

          Edit: y’all need to learn about minified models designed to run on edge hardware, they’re a thing and often work shockingly well.

      • med@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        4·
        2 months ago

        I think I need this, finally a real use for ‘ai’.

        The amount of how to videos you have to watch through, when all you want is one little piece of info you should be able to search or scan for has been a problem since before the internet figured out how to increase clicks by making a web page in to slides.

        Can you link me a how-to video on how to get startedt and send me a summary from your working setup?

        • seaQueue@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          2 months ago

          It’s just two steps, first get a transcript from the video somehow (use the whisper API if you’re willing to pay a small amount or just Google “transcribe YouTube video” and look for an ad supported site that’ll do it via Google.) Second: use chatgpt or local llama to summarize the transcript.

    • Shdwdrgn@mander.xyzEnglish
      8·
      2 months ago

      I hope nobody lets them know that Firefox on Linux has never shown ads for any of their content.

    • x4740N@lemm.eeEnglish
      1·
      2 months ago

      You don’t have to actually watch sponsorships since most of them are paying the creator excluding the ones where they pay by clicks on a custom link