Comment on YouTube Tests Showing Ads When You Pause a Video, Calls it ''Pause Ads''
CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 6 months agoI for one, watch like 3 hours a day, at least one hour of that is 4k on the TV. So I cost YouTube like 20 cents per day let’s say, 6 bucks a month, 72 bucks a year.
And for $130 a year you could get it ad free! Only an 80% mark up!
Tja@programming.dev 6 months ago
I already get it ad free. I have a premium family plan, works out to about 5 euros per person for our 4 person family. Per month.
As I mentioned, this is just bandwidth. Add servers, storage, power, real estate, staff… And then give like 55% or whatever to the creators. The 80% markup is way off for myself, youtube might actually be losing money on my outlier case. My kids and wife are probably much more profitable.
For context going to the movies is almost 20 euros per person just for the ticket, for 1 hour and a half of entertainment. Not including snacks, drinks, gas, parking… I wonder if people here also sneak into the movies because they are annoyed at the cashier.
CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 6 months ago
The movie theater provides the screen, seating, AC, and Sound system. Not to mention that the movie theater does not stop the movie multiple times in the middle of a sentence to play an ad. People do sneak into movies, and strangely the theaters don’t seem to be going out of business because of it.
I have no problem with ads. I listen to podcasts with ads all the time. I have an issue with how YouTube does their ads (and that it never seems to be enough). If YouTube wanted to it would be trivial to avoid ad blockers by making the ad indistinguishable from the rest of the stream: Comes from the same source, and does not modify the user’s control of the page. But to do that YouTube would need to vet and be responsible for the ads they show (can’t have that) and users wouldn’t be forced to sit through an ad they aren’t interested in (can’t have that).
An ad before the video starts that is skippable after 5s is fine. But it’s never enough, and Advertisers will always push further until people get sick of it and get an AdBlocker. This falls firmly into the territory of “Piracy is a service problem”: They make the site shittier and shittier and there is an easy and free alternative to make the site significantly better. And you want me to feel bad for the poor Billion dollar company that is actively making its service worse to try to wring more money out of it?
Tja@programming.dev 6 months ago
Oh, they don’t play ads in the 1h30min that I pay 100 bucks for?? Actually they do, a whole half an hour of them, before the movie.