Why can't they just place the ad at the beginning of the video, Spotify gives you X free uninterrupted songs to listen to after listening to 1,2 adds. Why can't they just follow that model
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How to ensure huge swathes of the population will never ever buy your product out of sheer spite
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Wow big congratulations to the corporate ghoul who thought this up. Thanks for making our world a shittier place.
Right when the guitar solo hits
I've been noticing lately that 800lb Gorilla specials have been cutting to ads right between the setup and punchline of a bit. Mad fucking annoying.
LOL. Like every tech story from the US is about enshittification. too funny.
I think it's funny that Google thinks putting an ad in when someone is most engaged with a video will be an effective advertising technique. So someone's going to be absorbed in the video, be presented with an ad while engaging with it and be happy that they were interrupted to be served an ad? Sounds like a great formula for pissing off your users.
For YouTube, viewers aren't the users, advertisers are.
Yeah let's just do an ad break during the most interesting part of EVERY video. Sounds amazing.... not
Yes but... YouTube its maybe the One and only online service that have no competition so... They dont really care
It's the same idiotic MBA reasoning that keeps bringing the popup back in some new form every few years. No, it wasn't the technical implementation of the delivery mechanism we were upset about, you absolute fucking morons.
It's always jarring loading a news site without ad blocking. The whole thing just seems cancerous, and that's before you can even start reading the story.
I recently switched phones and forgot I didn’t have an adblocker installed yet. Clicked on an article and holy shit the modern mobile web is a toxic hellscape without it…
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Adguard blocks YouTube ads on my laptop.
Smarttube blocks YT ads on my TV.
Revanced allows me to block YT ads on my phone.
But yeah, keep pushing adverts /s
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Enshittification
I would argue that this will be far more obnoxious than television commercials. YouTube already places ads directly in the midst of sentences or even words. At least television usually cut to commercial after the line was finished.
This will annoy me to the point of dropping YouTube altogether.
YouTube will put multiple ad breaks into a popular 8 min video. Which is why I use playtube and/or Firefox with ad block unless I'm too hungover to fully function
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I see the contest to find the world's biggest cunt continues unabated.
What will they think of next week?
Content creators need to eat. Platforms need to pay bills and employees. This is, and always has been, central to the issue but nobody will examine it. When presented with two options, one for 1 penny per year with no ads or a free version with ads, people will take the free one.
So there's a push pull happening. People won't pay. Creators need money. Platforms structure to meet the market conditions.
Leeches never stop to think about how content would ever get created if their 🧚magical utopia🧚 of decentralized, on-demand, ad-free video became real. They'll also never pay a motherfucking cent to anybody ever, they'd rather have laborious semantics debates about the meaning of the words "steal" and "theft".
Creators, afaik, make money mostly from merchandises, patreons, memberships, superchats,... not ads.
Ads are how Google makes money, which is fine in principle, except that Youtube is supposedly a "hosting platform" with all privileges associated, eg not being subjected to broadcast regulations, but acts like a broadcaster by promoting some content over another according to what'll make them more money. If the internet worked like Youtube, you'd type wikipedia's url in your browser, and instead it'll redirect to some ad-ridden clone.
It depends on what they're creating. There are definitely people that make good money from ads. The biggest problem is usually it's an unstable income and you never know when the god of algorithm will just decide to nuke your channel for no reason.
I don't think the outrage is so much about the existence of the ads, but rather the intentionally obnoxious placement of such, but go off in defense of billion dollar companies king.
Yeah, that will certainly increase pay for creators instead of buying-out the next company /s
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Google enshitifying things? Who would have thought? Seriously, it's as if they want to test how far they can go upsetting users. There's got to be some (a lot?) of that, for sure.
You'd think so, but a never ending stream of people continue to sit there glued to their phones through content and adverts alike.
We're probably already at the Demolition Man point of having a station just for adverts.
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