I don’t know man. This is actually pretty genius. Because this way creators still get paid. I wouldn’t mind using such extension on Firefox. Problem is I still want to block all trackers and other nonsense…
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blahsay@lemmy.world 1 year ago
F I R E F O X
jol@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year ago
Tattorack@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Doesn’t the creator only get paid if someone actually clicks on the ad? Pretty sure the creator gets nothing if no clicks are accumulated.
jol@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year ago
No, on YouTube you also earn from impressions.
viralJ@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Haha two exact opposite answers. From what I remember, the advertiser can chose the payment model. They can either say “I will pay YouTube a tiny amount for every time the ad is shown” or “I will pay YouTube a less tiny amount for every time the ad is clicked”. But it was a few years ago that I read about it so it might have changed since then.
Tattorack@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I tried actually searching for info about it, but it seems that YouTube and Google want to be as vague as possible about how it actually works.
Yes, let’s be a YouTube creator and base my income on something extremely vague and shaky. Sounds like a good life decision.
Kronlid@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Yes its all about click through rate(CTR)
CheeseNoodle@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Agreed, I’m testing it on opera and might have it installed for the soel purpose of watching youtube (with firefox for everything else)
echodot@feddit.uk 1 year ago
Firefox and just pay for a reasonable 30 second YouTube ad which is just a blank screen with the text “Use Firefox Already”
ours@lemmy.world 1 year ago
The “Look at what they need to do to have a fraction of our power” Invincible meme comes to mind.
Pathetic to be satisfied with sped-up annoyances when they can be easily skipped altogether with a browser not controlled by the ad company.