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As a long-time user hearing YouTube wants to play extra ads when I pause a video (lemmy.world)

submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Ads in, before, and after videos suck.

But wouldn't be an ad, which is displayed during a paused video one of the least annoying? Because, when I pause a video, I'm usually doing something else (bathroom break for instance, or, when staying at the computer, doing something in another browser tab or in a different program) and I'm absent from the video. Also, I can mute sound easily (one push of a key on the keyboard - which is a workflow that has to be executed then in addition to simply pausing the video and therefore would be annoying).

Or did I miss anything else crucial? Do you pause videos and stare at the paused video without doing anything else?

Anyway, this probably won't be a problem if you use an ad blocker. Or if you download the video.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

I also felt like lately there are too much ads on videos.

YouTube Ads alone yielded $31B in revenu for Google in 2023.

YouTube Ads is not going to disappear, unfortunately.

Source: https://www.statista.com/statistics/289659/youtube-share-of-google-total-ad-revenues/

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Revenue is not the same thing as profit. Storing nearly two decades of videos with global CDNs costs a lot of money.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

@GrymEdm
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[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago

The tears of people subsidizing my having never watched an ad (by having premium) fuels me for this week. Bring on the disagreement, but this is going to be a hard week, I'm going to listen to 2-3 hours of YouTube a day, and never have to pay attention to it to skip an ad. And my cats will listen to it ad free all day when I'm not at home.

Same with the dozen podcasts I listen regularly.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 6 months ago

Passively?? Video streaming is anything but passive income.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 6 months ago

I would even be ok with more than one add for longer videos. Like every 20 minutes they want to put a short commercial in? That'd still be fine for a free video I like enough to watch more than 20 minutes of. But no

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