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Comment on Youtube is allowing Youtubers to advertise their merch even for premium users

I feel like calling this an ad is a stretch, I get it ads suck. I hate ads, too. This is just the merch of the channel you clicked on, though. It’s fine, I don’t have it in me to care about a few images below a part of the user experience I never look at.

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gmtom@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
How is this anything but an ad?

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- echo64@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  let’s say you go to a movie theatre, they sell food in the concessions on the way in. is that an ad? or are they just selling shit and also you’re gonna go watch a movie. maybe you want popcorn. maybe you want a mug.
  
  if they were to play an ad roll for all the merch before the video, sure, that’s an ad. but that’s not happening, op just went to a users youtube page and saw that there is a section for the users merch.
  
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  - gmtom@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    If they have signs up advertising the food in the theatre, then yes, of course that’s an ad.
    
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    echo64@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    I’ll restate what I said because you didn’t quite go for it I didn’t say they put up advertising the food, I said they sell food.
    
    let’s say you go to a movie theatre, they sell food in the concessions on the way in. is that an ad? or are they just selling shit and also you’re gonna go watch a movie. maybe you want popcorn. maybe you want a mug.
    
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deleted@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
As I stated in the other post, I have no problem with merch segments in the video or description.

But the difference is taking screen real estate is not acceptable. And the cherry on top, I didn’t even subscribed to this channel.

If I want to support a creator, I’ll spend time to find them on pateron or find their merch. But shoving that in my face in every video is different.

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- echo64@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  so you are accepting of the entire screen being a merch plug if it’s a video segment, of if it’s in the description which either does indeed take up screen real estate, or you are only accepting because you don’t look at descriptions. but you aren’t accepting of merch in a small section that used to be basically nothing?
  
  i just don’t follow your logic, it just sounds like you saw something new and immediately reacted without thinking it through.
  
  if this was an actual ad, people would be with you on this. but it just isn’t. it’s some merch that the youtuber sells. fuck them for trying to make a living right? they can only make a living if they actively hide any way that they could make a living.
  
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