Comment on YouTube Tests Showing Ads When You Pause a Video, Calls it ''Pause Ads''
brbposting@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
Hypothetical
If somebody like Raymond Hill (Ublock Origin dev) were forced to run YouTube profitably, what might he do to try to run it so it sucks less but still makes a little bit of money? Or even breaks even?
Could also ask what if the Wikimedia Foundation had to run it, you know like under penalty of imprisonment - take somebody good/anti-corporate, force them to run the business w/o any other option - what’s the best option for The People w/o losing money?
(Donate buttons eervrywhere?)
Gabu@lemmy.world 6 months ago
For starters, cull the immense amount of duplicated content. Look for some random common word and sort by recent, you’ll see thousands of channels from India, Pakistan and similar nations reposting the exact same videos. There’s also an ungodly amount of spam. These two things alone would, I’d guess, cut down a good chunk of server costs. Another thing is optimizing bitrate, I often get served “1080p” content featuring little more than a static image while browsing in my 6" phone.
brbposting@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
Good calls.
I think they’re going hard on the video quality front. Huge channels post videos that are “1080p Premium Bitrate” at max for premium subscribers. Feel like they used to post 4K.
Gabu@lemmy.world 6 months ago
4k and high bitrate 1080p are actually the same thing.
brbposting@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
🤯🤯🤯
How did marketing let engineering NOT name it 4k?!? I’m pretty serious actually