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uBlock Origin has 36,000,000 users according to Google and ABP has 46,000,000 users. Another 13,000,000 use AdGuard and 67,000,000 use AdBlock (the crappy one, but nonetheless, it blocks YouTube ads).
Also on Firefox there are 7,780,587 uBO users. Checkmate
I use uBlock origin on firefox. All my devices are always connected through a VPN with all the ad and tracker blocks turned on.
I am a YouTube premium subscriber.
There are dozens of us... dozens!!!
Imagine being me and paying for premium and using ublock + revanced.
At the end of the day, I think I get 10 dollars in value a month, and I know hosting data isn't free.
Edit: Right after I submitted I read the comment before me. Sorry about saying the exact same thing again 😅
Thank you for being this way.
I think platform greed is awful, but I think consumer greed is something that largely goes unacknowledged.
Even though I've been 'over' the genre for more than a decade, I still buy Japanese shmups when they appear on Steam - at one time they could only be found on obscure JP Warez sites, forget legally here. I do it out of a sense of something owed for past joy, and never play the Steam ver.
I'm also hypocritical to a degree. I can only afford to support so much and I don't pay for everything, just what I would have paid for anyways. Perhaps there is some self-satisfying logic built in there lol
I wouldn't ever give Google a single penny. Instead, I pay for Nebula, allowing me to watch high quality videos and documentaries while supporting indie creators. And it's just $5/month.
| Chrome Web Store | Firefox Add-ons | Microsoft Edge Add-ons | Opera add-ons | Total | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| uBlock Origin | 36,000,000 | 7,780,587 | 10,000,000 | 12,686,907 | 66,467,494 |
| uBlock Origin Lite | 70,000 | 3,145 | 3,000 | N/A | 73,145 |
| uBlock | 700,000 | N/A | 10,000 | N/A | 710,000 |
| AdNauseam | N/A | 74,478 | 10,000 | 210,616 | 295,094 |
| AdBlock Plus | 46,000,000 | 4,064,146 | 10,000,000 | 50,844,211 | 110,908,357 |
| AdBlock | 67,000,000 | 1,206,627 | N/A | N/A | 68,206,627 |
| AdGuard | 13,000,000 | 1,053,029 | 8,000,000 | 10,872,145 | 32,925,174 |
| Total | 162,770,000 | 14,182,012 | 28,023,000 | 74,613,879 | 279,588,891 |
Source: Official data from extension stores
This table does not include Safari extensions, browser extensions installed through Linux package managers like the firefox-ublock-origin package on Arch Linux, browsers with built in adblockers like LibreWolf or Brave, modded YouTube mobile apps like Vanced/Revanced on Android, uYou for iOS, alternative frontends like Invidious or Piped, desktop clients like FreeTube, other mobile apps like Newpipe, Libretube or Yattee or other adblocking solutions.
Grayjay, revanced, libretube, newpipe, youtube piped, youtube invidious, and uBlock origin 👀
Don't forget FreeTube
Watch how they steadily increase the price now (which they’ve already been doing)
It went up like four bucks this month for me this past month. I feel like I am in a no-win situation. I want to support the authors of the videos and music I like, make the platform sustainable, and I hate ads and data harvesting. There doesn't seem to be reasonable way to satisfy all three objectives (or even two).
I'm mostly in the same boat with supporting the creators, however I don't really like Google to be honest. I end up supporting creators outside the platform, such as via Patreon or by watching on Nebula. Most of my YT consumption is done via NewPipe, Piped and Freetube
There's a little part of me that likes the fact that YouTube is burning a hole in Google's finances tbh lol
Patreon for the ones you really like, and substituting watching my own content on Plex is how I’m weening myself off YouTube.
And it still doesn't have sponsorblock. Free is more feature rich than paid. Hahaha
How many of those subscribers are like me, definitely watching YouTube from Argentina.
That's over a billion dollars a month. If they're still operating at a loss with all that then it's their own incompetence at fault.
marketing tactics to get even more to subscribe, ala "x amount of people got it so it must be good".
Yet it feels like I got better things to spend it on, as I don't watch much anymore due to algorithm changes making me miss the prior new music uploads and or newer channels to discover.
Every refresh contains the same or prior channels watched with the same content shuffled or worse, suggest old dated watched videos.
Meanwhile I'm thinking "ey, sounds like they're getting enough money, now maybe they can leave me the fuck alone."
"Enough money" is not a concept they understand unfortunately
I do have YouTube Premium, because between the ad-free movies and TV shows and the music, the family sharing option was cheaper than Spotify and a couple of streaming services we gave up, and the few new content creators I do watch get paid more. But if they keep raising the price, I'll look for something else.
Use Freetube, people.
I watch on my television tho
Use smart tube
Wish there is was a webOS variant for LGs
There is, you can enable dev mode and install the homebrew channel, here's a guide for Dev Mode and here's a guide for the Homebrew Channel
Get an Onn stick and adapt it to your needs.
I want the creators I watch on YouTube to continue to get paid, both from YouTube and their sponsors. My contributions through premium are sliver of what they see, but if everyone stopped supporting them in that way, the total would be zero.
I back some of them on Patreon where I can, but it's not economically feasible for me to back them all in such a way.
This "Article" is short on details, And according to this article Google did not reveal data about subscriptions in the recent earnings call. I can only think this a PR piece to fluff up Google's shares and discourage critics. Unless Google can be confident enough to explain which regions added subscribers and how much of such a subscription was part of a bundle... We can't conclude that their anti-adblocking measures and price hikes were successful.
Example: India would fluff up numbers without adding as much revenue (bundles are common and subscription prices are low) than NA or EU
I might even consider it out if they weren't selling me music as well and if there was a family option (in my country). And no, I wouldn't consider VPN as I won't do extra work to be able to pay google.
Found the corporate account. Fuck youtube. Steal that shit.
Their war on ad-blockers must be paying off
We can't really tell for sure because:
I’ll be honest. I did. With a VPN. It costs me $2.50 a month.
I live in a place where its just $2.50. No YouTube ads ever is great.
I get this same service but for free :3
I looked at it. The features aren't worth the price at all.
