As a long-time user hearing YouTube wants to play ads when I pause a video

https://lemmy.world/post/14798745

As a long-time user hearing YouTube wants to play ads when I pause a video - Lemmy.World

Was YouTube ever profitable?
I actually had trouble finding that out. It’s apparently a closely-guarded secret according to some tech websites. I do have this chart that says since 2017 YouTube ad revenue has been 7-11% of Google’s total revenue but I don’t know if that = profit.
YouTube: share of Google net ad revenues 2023 | Statista

Is YouTube profitable for Google? YouTube's ad business revenues made up over 11 percent of the Alphabet-owned giant revenues for the last examined year.

Statista

“I have ads blocked on PC but still see them on my phone.”

If you’re on Android, ReVanced. And if you’re on iOS, well get fucked or something, idk

ReVanced

Continuing the legacy of Vanced.

I just use Firefox with extensions on mobile honestly
Yeah I completely gave up on the app. Firefox with ublock is a blessing, internet in general is basically unusable on mobile without it.
In iOS you can use Yattee and link to an alternative Frontend. Works well for me.
Seconded on this one. I use Yattee with Piped as my frontend, with an account as well, and it’s been pretty solid so far.
He explicitly told you to get lost or something, dude!
I use adguard on ios, also a vpn btw, and blocks all ads in browser and blocks ads in yt videos in their app. Used yattee for a bit, but tbh I didn’t like the UX, then it stopped working so I switched
didn’t work for piped.video and yewtu.be. which front end are you using?
You just got me free music, I couldn’t afford it anymore so I have to drop it. Thank you
On ios there’s brave browser and firefox focus.
I’ve been using revanced for a year and something happened in the past couple of weeks where it just refuses to work and keeps sayi go there’s no internet connection :( I have uninstalled and reinstalled/patched things as per instructions and nothing.