• NocturnalEngineer@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    I never had an issue with YT’s 1-2 skipable ads at the beginning, or even the banner ad. But they got greedy.

    The midrolls and the unskipable ads was the trigger point for me.

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      10 months ago

      I was fine with even having a couple very short unskippable ads every other video. Now it is all of them with one in the middle of videos longer than 5 minutes. And then of course the content creator has to put in an ad because YouTube does not pay shit for views.

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      10 months ago

      Yeah and I wouldn’t even mind like 5 minutes of ads at the beginning compared to randomly dispersed in the middle

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        10 months ago

        Oh sure, let me watch 5 MINUTES before watching a 7min clip.
        Dedicated 5min are only marginally justified if the content is >60 minutes in length.

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      10 months ago

      I mean, they didn’t get greedy, as far as everyone knows they are losing a ton of money (at least if you can extrapolate anytbing from the fact that twitch is massively unprofitable)

      • TwilightVulpine@lemmy.world
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        10 months ago

        Pretty sure YouTube has already been declared to be profitable. But frankly I’m pretty suspicious of claims of unprofitability for services being run for over a decade. Why would any for-profit company bankroll them if it wasn’t worth it? There has to be some creative accounting going on.

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          10 months ago

          Doubt it, if it was profitable, they would be announcing that to everyone as loud as they could. Besides, if twitch is unprofitable, I doubt that google is in a much better situation

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        10 months ago

        If they want to, they can go 100% paywalled. But I guess people like to conveniently forget that YouTube wants to double-dip.

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        10 months ago

        That was the initially when YouTube was created. Everyone knows that Google has no problem cancelling anything that’s not profitable.

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          10 months ago

          If it was profitable, then why did google stop posting the financial statistics for YouTube

          • eskimofry@lemmy.world
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            10 months ago

            to get the benefit of the doubt on unpopular decisions. Same thing with hiding thumbs down counter from videos.