Comment on YouTube Tests Showing Ads When You Pause a Video, Calls it ''Pause Ads''

Toneswirly@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• woelkchen@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I don’t think they will because the competition is too incompetent. I give you two examples:

  I’m a subscriber of Nebula, a paid streaming service where educational YouTubers get a better cut and users don’t get ads. Those creators almost always fail to promote their Nebula uploads. “Hey guys, new video.” And they link to YouTube only. Also they leave their Patreon shout-outs in which is not what I’m paying money for. YouTube with Sponsor Block just is the better experience at this point and I just keep paying for Nebula because I hope it’ll get better and I like its idea.

  Second example: I try to watch live streaming on the websites of the broadcaster or so. And more often than not it’s a shit show: I can’t properly pause the streams because they don’t support time shifting and bitrate adjustments are also not as smooth as YouTube.

  It’s 2024 and internet video is over two decades old at this point and yet almost nobody else manages to get their shit together. Companies like Netflix have good tech but their business is completely different, so those compete with YouTube at best tangentially.

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  • gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Also they leave their Patreon shout-outs in which is not what I’m paying money for

    No, but it’s what other people have paid for. Usually at the end of a video past it’s actual content, in what’s considered the “credits”, people who helped pay are tradiditionaly part of that.

    If it’s elsewhere in the video that fucks with flow then yeah, that’s bad, but the normal process has been in place for longer than either of us has been alive

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    • woelkchen@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      No, but it’s what other people have paid for.

      Which Sponsor Block skips. My point is that the viewing experience is currently better on YouTube despite the enshittification because the competition is worse. The least would be to support chapter marks but this is one area this specific competitor also lacks and no Sponsor Block alternative for Nebula exists. For much shit on YouTube there are workaround like Sponsor Block. For shit on other platforms these don’t exist.

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  • sandman@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The competition for youtube is peertube, not another centralized platform.

    It just needs content.

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    • woelkchen@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      The competition for youtube is peertube, not another centralized platform.

      I gave two examples. I was not making a statement in favor of centralized platforms.

      Also PeerTube tech is leagues behind YouTube tech.

      It just needs content.

      So replace “Nebula” in my first example with “PeerTube”. Works just the same when video creators post to both and just keep promoting the YouTube one.

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      • sandman@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        What? Nebula is a paid streaming service.

        Peertube is free.

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  • CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The only company that can compete with YouTube is pornhub. People have been begging on their hands and knees for them to enter the hard space. It’s fertile territory, with lots of the kinks worked out. I really hope they spank YouTube in the nuts and give it a go.

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    • woelkchen@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      with lots of the kinks

      😏

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      • starman2112@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I see you caught the one reference to porn in their comment

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  • HopingForBetter@lemmy.today ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’ll agree that competition is not as robust.

    However, it will be interesting to see how many “non-techy” people discover how easy it is to find content for free without ads.

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