Comment on Google says adblockers caused YouTube views count to drop - this is what adblockers told us really happened

Zen_Shinobi@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• dan@upvote.au ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  The only real alternatives to ads are either paying for the content, or having someone else pay for you (which is the case with something like PeerTube - someone else is covering the cost of the server and bandwidth without asking you for payment).

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  • tabular@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Paying to access content makes a lot more sense that hoping someone willingly watches an advert on their own hardware.

    An indirect, alternate could be universal basic income - which makes it easier for people to choose less profitable options.

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    • dan@upvote.au ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      A lot of people either don’t want to pay, or can’t pay (eg people in developing nations with very low income). I agree that UBI would help, but we’re a long way off from that being a standard thing in one country, let alone worldwide.

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    • TheOctonaut@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Just so we’re clear, you’re proposing UBI as a solution to a global website showing ads

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      • athatet@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Right. Turns out UBI is a solution to a lot of things.

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      • tabular@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        To authors of works getting compensated for sharing their efforts. So here it’s a video content on a website, but also any other works on any other protocol.

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  • baines@lemmy.cafe ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    i really don’t care

    rather do without than with ads

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  • MaggiWuerze@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    If it were sensibly prized I would have no issue with paying for YouTube. But seeing as they almost ask for the same as Netflix and co while not producing any content, I decided for the adblocker instead

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    • manxu@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      They do not produce content, but they share 70% of revenue with the creators. You can argue that’s not enough, but it’s definitely more than Netflix et al pay their content creators.

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• kokesh@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Creators are paid based on those views, so that would matter.

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  • Lfrith@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I personally wouldn’t care that much if youtube went back to how it was back in the day of people sharing for the sale of sharing instead of it being filled with bunch of aspiring infomercial hosts trying to get the bag.

    Have to blocklist so many channels because they monopolize the top search results before I see videos from normal folks just uploading to upload because they thought a video would be helpful.

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• dan@upvote.au ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

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  • MaggiWuerze@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Ads

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