Re: What determines the fact that some youtube apps/platforms have ads and some don't?

From	Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com>
Newsgroups	alt.windows7.general, comp.mobile.ipad, comp.mobile.android, alt.os.linux
Subject	Re: What determines the fact that some youtube apps/platforms have ads and some don't?
Date	2016-09-09 21:04 -0700
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On 9/9/16, 8:56 PM, in article nr00a6$tqb$2@news.mixmin.net, "Horace Algier"
<horatio@horatio.net> wrote:

> On Fri, 9 Sep 2016 16:02:03 -0400, Mayayana wrote:
> 
>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQHsXMglC9A
>> 
>> It's a link to an Adele song. I picked it because all of the sources marked
>> "VEVO" don't seem to download in DH. Maybe the actual download source is not
>> Youtube. Maybe commercial music only links through Youtube and downloads from
>> the music company.
>> 
>> I expect NewPipe is not much good for me, though. I don't use a computerphone
>> or tablet, so have nothing Android. (For that matter, I'm not wild about the
>> idea of using anything Google has had their hands in.)
>> 
> I had absolutely no problem downloading the entire video and/or sharing it
> with other apps and/or just extracting the audio, and, at no point in time did
> I see an advertisement (I never do) on Android.

There are YouTube shows I watch... and to make it easy for me I download
them. My network can be flakey it is easier to cue them up or stop or stop
them with a remote.

Keepvid.com has yet to fail me... though I can see the benefits not being
dependant on a website app.

> But I just saw this note which says you're only on a computer, so, now you're
> stuck in a browser.
> 
> I don't usually use a browser for much (except browsing web pages, mostly the
> news and Wikipedia and research) so I can't help on the youtube downloader
> plugins for the browsers.
> 
> But others can, so, I'll defer to them.
> 
> But still - the main question is HOW does the AD happen?

Back end app that controls the playback... but I do not know the details.

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