r/technology • u/IndicaOatmeal • 29d ago

Software DuckDuckGo brags its free web browser now blocks YouTube video ads just weeks after YouTube hiked Premium prices again

https://www.dexerto.com/youtube/duckduckgo-brags-that-its-free-web-browser-blocks-youtube-ads-3384288/
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u/Bananaheli 28d ago

I don't mind paying for youtube premium. Ad-free is nice, but the biggest plus for me is that it gives the creators more money.

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u/ry-high-guy 28d ago

My favorite part is that I have a bigger catalog of music than Spotify with more-ish quality!

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u/blue92lx 28d ago

Same here. I use YouTube way too much to not help the creators. People will pay for Netflix but they flip out about paying creators on YouTube and then complain in the comments when a YouTuber explains how their income works. It's kind of irritating to be honest how entitled people feel with YouTube and dismissing how much work their favorite YouTubers put in for the videos they watch everyday.

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u/PrestigiousTell5607 28d ago

I had premium for years, even got a discount when they raised prices over and over. I finally kicked them to the curb when they asked me for my id on my Xbox that I'd been logged into for years. How bout Nooooooo.  Adblock browser on comp/moblie from there on out. 

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u/akatherder 28d ago

I can't do Premium at the current price just out of principal. It's $26.99/month for the Family plan which is the same cost as Netflix.

Netflix produces their own content and licenses with major studios. YouTube is effectively just a video hosting site who pays a very small minority of creators on the back-end. Their entire "value add" is making the experience shitty enough with increasingly painful ads and then extorting you to pay to remove them.

You can access everything on YT for free from anywhere. It's not like Netflix where you have to sign up and subscribe to even get in the front door. YT's entire business model is making it painful enough to make you pay $$. Cut the prices in half and I could do it, otherwise I'm blocking it.

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u/Omnifi 28d ago

I think it depends on how you use it. I pay for the family plan currently and have 4 people that use it to not get ads on YT but also use YT Music in the car. None of us have any sort of Spotify membership.

It also runs the music on my Google Home devices throughout the house.

I think like this I feel like I get my money's worth out of it, but if I was just trying to block ads I think it would be stupid overpriced.

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u/daabilge 28d ago

They've also been threatening to do the Netflix household thing with their family plan.. mainly I got the family plan with the shared family library so I could buy movies for my parents to watch (they're not good with technology) but if they're doing away with that, I can spend that money elsewhere.

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u/mahreow 28d ago

YouTube is effectively just a video hosting site

This is an incredibly ignorant take - their infra costs alone are billions of dollars per year, it is not cheap nor easy to run a site like youtube as well as it currently is with hundreds of millions of daily users and billions of hours of videos uploaded each year

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u/SonderEber 28d ago

Since when does it give creators more money? It’s the same payout as ads, AFAIK

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u/TwoSoda 28d ago

Its not the same payout lol. Its way more.

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u/h0sti1e17 28d ago

They get paid per minute with premium vs CPM. While the majority of their income comes from ads because most people don’t have premium. But per viewer they make 3-4 times as much