Creators are paid based on those views, so that would matter.
Zen_Shinobi@lemmy.world 1 day ago
(shrug) don’t care if it affects views, never should have had them in videos regardless.
kokesh@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Lfrith@lemmy.ca 22 hours 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.
dan@upvote.au 1 day 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).
tabular@lemmy.world 1 day 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.
dan@upvote.au 23 hours 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.
TheOctonaut@mander.xyz 17 hours ago
Just so we’re clear, you’re proposing UBI as a solution to a global website showing ads
athatet@lemmy.zip 15 hours ago
Right. Turns out UBI is a solution to a lot of things.
tabular@lemmy.world 15 hours 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.
baines@lemmy.cafe 19 hours ago
i really don’t care
rather do without than with ads
MaggiWuerze@feddit.org 1 day 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
manxu@piefed.social 1 day 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.