Cancelled my Netflix a while ago and I don’t see myself cancelling YouTube premium anytime soon. One thing that annoys me quite a lot is that THESE PEOPLE don’t understand that by using adblockers they’re making the situation worse for everyone, especially those not using one. Why do you think people bake sponsors into their content? Because they have to. Why do you think the frequency of ads increases? Because if they want the same profits, with less people seeing the ads and their infrastructure cost remaining the same, they must increase the frequency of the ads.
Comment on Goodbye Youtube and thanks for all the fish
scarabic@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Or you can pay them $$$
I use it between half an hour and two hours every day. And I can afford it. So this is what I do. It’s worth far more than Netflix to me.
Yawnder@lemmy.zip 8 months ago
scarabic@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Yep, well, I guess we can celebrate this change then, because it won’t affect us, but it will make that free lunch a little harder to get. Though from these comments it doesn’t sound like much harder. I don’t know why YT can’t solve this by fully baking the ad content into the streams. There are even some community driven products out there that amass as start/end times so that sponsor plugs can be skipped. But YT could make even that toothless with a little randomization.
Yawnder@lemmy.zip 8 months ago
Their goal never will be to have no people bypassing it. It’s always a balance of “reasonable effort to prevent it” with making it enough of an annoyance to deter everyone from doing it.
scarabic@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Yep. An arms race.
atetulo@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Congratulations. Your low standards and high wealth is what helps make youtube more profitable than it already is.
nathris@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
Don’t forget that a large chunk of that money also goes to the creators. It’s significantly more than they get from showing you an ad.
scarabic@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I’ll consider myself an “honorary Patreon supporter” with zero perks LOL