Well said mate. Ads are a load of bullshit (excuse me) and I don't think what youtube is doing is right. Your content is amazing and I appreciate how you do it as a hobby rather than a job. I am glad you're moving to odysee and I hope you see the same success over there. Well done with how far you've come mate and hopefully RUclips fixes its shit.
EDIT: YES I HAVE HEARD OF U-BLOCK! And trust me, while it works for now, it won't forever. One day there'll be a crackdown on it. Regardless if it exists, RUclips is still the most scummy corporation that I have dealt with. This decision was already coming one way or another, this was just the tipping point. vimeo.com/user160091048 I've also created a Vimeo account where I'll be uploading new videos, yes I know that Vimeo is of course not a very good platform but at least it has morals. At least it allows you to do what you want with your own channel.
i got put onto opera about 4 years. ago. no ads, no pop-up ads either. anyway, eventually youtube got onto them and now i have had ads for the past 3 or 4 months. but no popups. a nerd i know of (he runs a computer problem solving company ) searched the world for a country to host his vpn. he chose argentina and pays with argentinian pesos for an ad-free service. ive learnt to live with the ads
The problem is the complaints are there and are loud enough to not be ignored, RUclips is owned by an American corpo (Google), which (like any large corpo) have this really bad habit called "not listening". For me, I'll be staying on RUclips but if there comes a time I need to crossover to another platform, I still have the video files so everything is 100% for the move.
This is sad. Even if you've got videos that you're just starting your youtube journey with then suddenly they get hit with ads. I will say that currently if you have your playback speed to 2x speed, the ads also get effected by it therefore less time watching the stupid unskipable ads. I only hope this feature stays
It wouldnt be so bad if Google didn't sell their ad spaces to the highest bidder, meaning that a scammer with enough spare money can literally promote a virus on a MrBeast video. As for your point about monetization, I too am a small creator. And like you said even if you turn monetization off on a video, RUclips will still run ads on it and collect the revenue. For me, since I'm a micro-creator, I'm not even eligible for monetization. I do RUclips as a free hobby of mine. I don't wanna get famous, I just wanna make silly memes. But despite that, despite me being ineligible for monetization, RUclips will (potentially) STILL put ads on my videos without my knowledge and then collect the money all for themselves. It's just disgusting behavior. This website went from bad to worse in the past 4 years alone. Nobody in charge of this platform knows what they're doing and they just keep doing dumb thing after dumb thing and it's pissing off creators and viewers alike.
Honestly, people watching this, try your damn hardest to get odysee to either replace youtube alltogether, or at least give youtube competition so they actually give a damn about the end user experience cuz theyre scared that people might use odysee instead I said in a comment a while ago that i doubt a youtube alternative will ever take off but im praying to be proved wrong. So please prove me wrong. Tell people about odysee, if youre a creator, especially one with a large following, upload to odysee, try get others to upload to odysee cuz looking at it, its good. Its just not got enough content to sustain itself. So make stuff for odysee and make it an actual competing option for youtube.
RUclips is forcing people to pay for Premium in order to escape advertising by flooding videos with unwanted advertising. Despite this people watch your videos because you provide quality content and I urge you to continue with your hobby and RUclips. I have always supported your channel and I told you 2 years ago that you had great talent and would succeed in your endeavours and you have proven me to be correct. Despite what you may think of me I will continue to support you on RUclips if you choose to stay. I wish you well if you choose to move on.
I don't want to take the defense of RUclips but unfortunately this is something the needed to happen at some point. If you consider the price of storing 4k videos at the scale of youtube + the bandwith required to serve all viewers without lag or anything, you jump straight to billions dollars. So now how do you pay for that ? Ads or subscription. The problem is that people got used to free internet and services while someone has to pay for it. Ads are fine for some flat search on Google but youtube resources are insanely pricy. In addition, with the end of cookies approaching and more restrictive laws on user data, revenue per ads is collapsing, hence the need of having more and more of them. I think youtube monopoly is an issue as nothing guarantees fair pricing in the long run for subscriptions, but as far as it concerns pure business principle, this decision unfortunately makes sense. You can still go for another video service, but there are no reasons it remains free and without adds once it scalled enough.
Moments after the video was posted, Griffen died of mysterious cause not at all related to google
I literally just switched to a different ad block that still works
let’s finish this lore video tho and posted here
Well said mate. Ads are a load of bullshit (excuse me) and I don't think what youtube is doing is right. Your content is amazing and I appreciate how you do it as a hobby rather than a job. I am glad you're moving to odysee and I hope you see the same success over there. Well done with how far you've come mate and hopefully RUclips fixes its shit.
EDIT: YES I HAVE HEARD OF U-BLOCK! And trust me, while it works for now, it won't forever. One day there'll be a crackdown on it. Regardless if it exists, RUclips is still the most scummy corporation that I have dealt with. This decision was already coming one way or another, this was just the tipping point.
vimeo.com/user160091048
I've also created a Vimeo account where I'll be uploading new videos, yes I know that Vimeo is of course not a very good platform but at least it has morals. At least it allows you to do what you want with your own channel.
i got put onto opera about 4 years. ago. no ads, no pop-up ads either. anyway, eventually youtube got onto them and now i have had ads for the past 3 or 4 months. but no popups. a nerd i know of (he runs a computer problem solving company ) searched the world for a country to host his vpn. he chose argentina and pays with argentinian pesos for an ad-free service. ive learnt to live with the ads
Imagine every creator did this. Wow.
While we are at it imagine everyone stopped buying crap on amazon.
There are ads as well on my videos, which ANNOYS me the most. Anyways, come back soon, Griffin Rails.
fair point mate will miss your content till you come back
UBlock is our last savior, let's be honest
This is why RUclips need competition
RUclips is the most popular social media site in the world, yet they won’t allow ad blockers anymore.. FFS.
The problem is the complaints are there and are loud enough to not be ignored, RUclips is owned by an American corpo (Google), which (like any large corpo) have this really bad habit called "not listening". For me, I'll be staying on RUclips but if there comes a time I need to crossover to another platform, I still have the video files so everything is 100% for the move.
regardless if they ban or not ban me adblocker and financial hunt goes brr
This is sad. Even if you've got videos that you're just starting your youtube journey with then suddenly they get hit with ads.
I will say that currently if you have your playback speed to 2x speed, the ads also get effected by it therefore less time watching the stupid unskipable ads. I only hope this feature stays
It wouldnt be so bad if Google didn't sell their ad spaces to the highest bidder, meaning that a scammer with enough spare money can literally promote a virus on a MrBeast video.
As for your point about monetization, I too am a small creator. And like you said even if you turn monetization off on a video, RUclips will still run ads on it and collect the revenue. For me, since I'm a micro-creator, I'm not even eligible for monetization. I do RUclips as a free hobby of mine. I don't wanna get famous, I just wanna make silly memes. But despite that, despite me being ineligible for monetization, RUclips will (potentially) STILL put ads on my videos without my knowledge and then collect the money all for themselves. It's just disgusting behavior. This website went from bad to worse in the past 4 years alone. Nobody in charge of this platform knows what they're doing and they just keep doing dumb thing after dumb thing and it's pissing off creators and viewers alike.
My man made 10 year special then decided yeah nah no more RUclips
uBlock works without being blocked
Brave Browser, no ads but still befits the creator
Honestly, people watching this, try your damn hardest to get odysee to either replace youtube alltogether, or at least give youtube competition so they actually give a damn about the end user experience cuz theyre scared that people might use odysee instead
I said in a comment a while ago that i doubt a youtube alternative will ever take off but im praying to be proved wrong. So please prove me wrong.
Tell people about odysee, if youre a creator, especially one with a large following, upload to odysee, try get others to upload to odysee cuz looking at it, its good. Its just not got enough content to sustain itself. So make stuff for odysee and make it an actual competing option for youtube.
Dude, you seriously never heard of just using a non-chromium browser that has adblock built in?
Took me ten minutes personally to defeat the block.
Took adblockers hours.
Just give it time.
Just like the pirate bay.
RUclips is forcing people to pay for Premium in order to escape advertising by flooding videos with unwanted advertising. Despite this people watch your videos because you provide quality content and I urge you to continue with your hobby and RUclips. I have always supported your channel and I told you 2 years ago that you had great talent and would succeed in your endeavours and you have proven me to be correct. Despite what you may think of me I will continue to support you on RUclips if you choose to stay. I wish you well if you choose to move on.
Rest in peace Griffin Rails
died in a violent train crash
In 2002, ########################
This website is as horrible as Penn Central here in America lol
ublock origin, you're welcome.
I don't want to take the defense of RUclips but unfortunately this is something the needed to happen at some point. If you consider the price of storing 4k videos at the scale of youtube + the bandwith required to serve all viewers without lag or anything, you jump straight to billions dollars. So now how do you pay for that ? Ads or subscription. The problem is that people got used to free internet and services while someone has to pay for it. Ads are fine for some flat search on Google but youtube resources are insanely pricy. In addition, with the end of cookies approaching and more restrictive laws on user data, revenue per ads is collapsing, hence the need of having more and more of them.
I think youtube monopoly is an issue as nothing guarantees fair pricing in the long run for subscriptions, but as far as it concerns pure business principle, this decision unfortunately makes sense.
You can still go for another video service, but there are no reasons it remains free and without adds once it scalled enough.
I still got no ads lmao
Thankfully i watch youtube on pc. Since the sh it hsppened ive been watching on private browser.
oh yo, i think i saw you in an pokemon server. i'm hey_don't+cry.
i've been running adblockers ever since the announcement. y'all are cringe.
Removal off the property within 30 days mate
Ublock still works
I understand your decision, good luck to you.
ublock origin
You sound like Gigguk
Fallen Angel
Run Brave Browser
I already do, but for the other people they still have to sit through all the garbage.
@@griffinrailslaunch an incogneto window and copy paste links. Its a pain but better thsn watching ads.
My respect 🗿
Get ublock orign everyone
🤤🤤🤤
As a premium RUclips subscriber, I applaud you. Good going.
pay for premium lil bro 🫳🫳🫳
He’s a goddamn teen..