Nah, Firefox with ublock origin is better than giving money to google.

iLoveOncall · 2025-07-12T20:30:15 1752352215

You also give money to the creators you watch by watching ads or watching with YouTube premium.

You also can't block ads on iPhones, which a majority of the developed world uses. My girlfriend has never watched a YouTube video on something other than an Apple device for example.

lucb1e · 2025-07-13T00:47:33 1752367653

I'd rather send money to the people I want to support than fund a middleman

> which a majority of the developed world uses

... the USA? It's not a majority in any other country that I'm aware of

I've got a Eurocentric view though, I have e.g. no idea if Singapore or China has a majority of Apple users or where you draw the line on 'developed' (critique on the term: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Factfulness&oldid...)

iLoveOncall · 2025-07-13T07:40:10 1752392410

https://www.enterpriseappstoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/...

Basically any rich country has a majority of iPhones. And let's not even talk about tablets.

lucb1e · 2025-07-13T16:11:05 1752423065

Without loading the image up in an editor and comparing color values, I can't tell which countries have a majority there. Looking it up myself, the third hit for "iphone market share" (the top two did not have a breakdown per country) is https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/iphone-ma... which shows how flawed this notion is: from a quick look, honduras, dominican republic, and albania are listed as over 50% but rich countries like the netherlands, germany, and new zealand are not

Anyway, it's also the user's own choice if they want a closed ecosystem. I find it relatively irrelevant if someone chooses a jail and then complains that the jailer is too strict and they can't run the ad blocker software they want: that's the deal they picked and they're free to choose an open platform any day of the week. I don't even mean open source, just the zeroth, most fundamental freedom ("The freedom to run the program as you wish, for any purpose", https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Free_Software_Definition#T...)

heraldgeezer · 2025-07-12T21:32:11 1752355931

>You also can't block ads on iPhones, which a majority of the developed world uses. My girlfriend has never watched a YouTube video on something other than an Apple device for example.

People really live like this... ? Like those who watch movies on their phones lmao.

Also, Brave works on iphone -> m.youtube.com adfree :)

Then again I went years not using conditioner and moisturiser for my skin, only deo... We all need tips from people who know better you know. (Im white.)