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Comment on YouTube Tests Showing Ads When You Pause a Video, Calls it ''Pause Ads''
mark@programming.dev 6 months ago
Google says pause ads on YouTube are getting a very positive reaction from advertisers
Bc screw the users and their reactions 😄. We really need a good YouTube competitor. This is beyond ridiculous at this point.
ForgotAboutDre@lemmy.world 6 months ago
hal_5700X@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
Passerby6497@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I don’t know anything about Odysee, but Rumble is a shithole.
hal_5700X@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
Rumble is a shithole.
Why?
mac@infosec.pub 6 months ago
I’ve not really used it except for the SLS because it’s streamed exclusively there. No major issues except one time long videos (sls streams can last 6 hours) would take a lifetime to load.
werefreeatlast@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Both seem/are single point of failure choices. I like a fediverse YouTube alternative.
Cqrd@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 months ago
Good luck getting a lot of people with a absolute shit ton of spare bandwidth
fine_sandy_bottom@discuss.tchncs.de 6 months ago
Peertube is an attempt at solving this.
You make content you’ve watched available to others wanting to watch it.
The basic idea being that everyone provides a similar amount of upstream bandwidth as the amount they consume.
Ofc content creators and some servers will provide a lot more to cover any shortfall.
werefreeatlast@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Well here we are sharing textual communication on fedi. It’s only a slight stretch. Like maybe I will share space by “liking” a video. Or maybe you have to explicitly click a “serve” or “seed” button. It’s not pie in the sky and it would eliminate all ads and other shit videos…you like a video ? Ok share it or download it if you want.
Wiz@midwest.social 6 months ago
There are some reasonably priced and free PeerTube servers for hosting content.
tal@lemmy.today 6 months ago
I like a fediverse YouTube alternative.
That’s PeerTube. The problem is that hosting video is a lot more expensive than hosting text, so finding the funds is a lot harder.
kent_eh@lemmy.ca 6 months ago
The problem is that hosting video is a lot more expensive than hosting text,
Which is why there aren’t any effective competitors to youtube.
Several have tried to directly compete, and they ran out of money.
In addition to the costs of the infrastructure, there are other issues.
In order to get to the scale where youtube would even care, you would need to have a lot of content that viewers want to watch. And to attract enough good video creators to post exclusively on your platform, you need a way for them to earn some money from their effort.
Yes, Odysee and Vimeo exist, but they’re pretty niche, and each has major limitations.
Odysee has a tiny audience, and they “pay” in their own crypto, which is very hard to convert into actual money that you can buy food with.
And Vimeo has some odd rules about what thay want on their site. And creators have to pay to upload at any useful scale. Plus their search and suggestion system is almost useless.
hal_5700X@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
Odysee is blockchain-based. So there’s that.
fine_sandy_bottom@discuss.tchncs.de 6 months ago
Meh. Blockchain just has such a stink to it these days.
Odysee uses the LBRY network which is a decentralised content hosting network, which is pretty great really.
LBRY happens to use blockchain tech but lets not talk about that.
01189998819991197253@infosec.pub 6 months ago
Never heard of rumble. Looks interesting
jonne@infosec.pub 6 months ago
That’s definitely something I want to see when I pause YouTube to take a phone call or whatever.
Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
Also, The new ball-bearing guillotine is getting rave reviews from guillotine operators!
lando55@lemmy.world 6 months ago
For all you know the victims rate it positively as well but they don’t submit feedback
irreticent@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Well, some do.
Bonus clip of Lisa trying to grow a penis.
AtariDump@lemmy.world 6 months ago
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