At least you can tell your boss “I’m working on it!”, sit on your ass, and every 6 months add one more little UI or formula change which “finally stops adblockers” but is defeated within 3 days.
Comment on YouTube is Losing The War Against Adblockers
chakan2@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Imagine being on the YouTube ad team…that has to be the most depressing team in tech history. Your whole existence revolves around peddling ads before people can watch the ads they want.
Rentlar@lemmy.ca 4 weeks ago
Damage@feddit.it 4 weeks ago
Yeah I don’t believe they really put their hearts in it. If they truly wanted to force you into watching ads, they’d manage. Their team is just not that interested.
01189998819991197253@infosec.pub 4 weeks ago
Their team is probably using adBlockers more than the rest of us. They understand the depth of the surveillance baked into those ads.
chevy9294@monero.town 4 weeks ago
And because they have to test the ads.
neo@lemmy.comfysnug.space 3 weeks ago
Thank god for that.
limerod@reddthat.com 4 weeks ago
Your whole existence revolves around peddling ads before people can watch the ads they want.
Ah, what. Who wants or likes to watch ads at all?
pete_the_cat@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
A lot of creators have just turned into corporate shills. I stopped watching ETA Prime’s channel about tech reviews because it was becoming pretty clear that mostly everything he got was paid for by the company. Also, most creators are putting their own ads into their content.
Cephalotrocity@biglemmowski.win 4 weeks ago
Welcome to Youtube. It’s ads all the way down. Unless:
Firefox browser Ublock Origin extension Sponsorblock extension
Save 40% of your viewing time for actual content and send tips through creator’s Paypal or whatever.
seaQueue@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
YouTube is just on demand TV with extra steps these days. I’ve stopped watching videos, I have an LLM transcript and summarize for me now. 99% of the content of a 10-15 minute video can be summarized into 1 or 2 pages and read in under 2 minutes.
Shdwdrgn@mander.xyz 4 weeks ago
I hope nobody lets them know that Firefox on Linux has never shown ads for any of their content.
pete_the_cat@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
SmartTube for Android TV is a must as well
x4740N@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
You don’t have to actually watch sponsorships since most of them are paying the creator excluding the ones where they pay by clicks on a custom link
chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
I don’t follow those creators!
The best part of YouTube is the small creators who are just making videos as a hobby. Once they get so big they start shilling products they wouldn’t use themselves I drop them like a hot potato. For the most part that doesn’t happen though because I prefer niche topics and creators that don’t have “sellout” personalities.
timewarp@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
I know right… Why should content creators be able to make money from content. Am I right?
knightly@pawb.social 4 weeks ago
You’re joking, but you’re right.
Once the content has been created, the near-zero marginal cost of online distribution makes the concept of charging for copies wholly untenable.
The furry community figured this out years ago, our creators work on commission or paid subscription through Patreon or one of its ilk. They (mostly) don’t care where you freely share their work because they already got paid.
webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 4 weeks ago
The same reasons as open source software devs.
bruhbeans@lemmy.ml 4 weeks ago
I’ve clicked in to see a movie trailer, which is basically an ad, and had to watch an ad before I could watch the ad
conciselyverbose@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
People watch an ad for the privilege of watching a movie/show/game trailer all the time.
chakan2@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Yea…I’m old enough to remember when that was the content that paid for the platform. Putting an ad on top of that is fucking soulless vampic greed.
seaQueue@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Welcome to the new Google.
ThePantser@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
I have no problem watching a ad for a video but when I have to watch an ad just to see if I am interested in watching the video is where I draw the line. Forced ads before the video starts is the worst. Give me a min or two before forcing an ad. If I am looking for help for a particular issue I don’t want to watch ads after ad while trying to gauge the video.
InternetUser2012@lemmy.today 4 weeks ago
I get what you’re saying but I’ve reached a point in my life where I really don’t give a shit and there is absolutely no way I’m watching ads. I’m also not paying google for anything they offer.
GissaMittJobb@lemmy.ml 4 weeks ago
I’m sure they make enough money to not care. Being in the part of the company that brings in the dough is generally a pretty good position to be in as well.
kayos@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
It’s the only consumer product they haven’t canceled.
PseudorandomNoise@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Gmail would like a word
suction@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
All corporate IT jobs are depressing, because working in a corporation isn’t something that a thinking person is equipped to do.
timewarp@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
So tell the content creators you like that you don’t like YouTube. While YouTube Premium is the same price as like two coffees a month… Maybe your content creator will help you if you can’t afford it.
claudiop@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Well, to begin with, both the watcher and the creator are clients of the platform. Both sides feel bound to it, even if both dislike it.
Then, YouTube premium is literally 20 machine coffees a month in my first world country. 15 if they’re done by someone. You seem to be speaking “privileged minority”.
timewarp@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
I’m sorry… I didn’t realize the reason that there are so many Starbucks in America, like literally caddy corner from one another is because their customer base is the “privileged minority.” I’ll have to remember that line.
In all seriousness, you could argue that ads prey on poor vulnerable people unable to afford YouTube Premium that just want to use it to learn, and that would be a semi-coherent argument.
claudiop@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
What you are trying to point is that in the United States of America (and maybe Canada) you people have coffee that’s so expensive that two of them pay for YT premium. You’re only missing out on most of the internet (eg. Not the US).
Starbucks is notoriously expensive and nobody refers to it as coffee round here. Starbucks in my first world country is considered something for hipster digital nomads. You can’t find them outside areas with tourists as everyone else is happy with “regular” coffee that’s literally 10 times cheaper.
Saying that two coffees equate to YouTube premium while using Starbucks as a metric is like saying that a car only costs a watch or two while using a Rolex as the reference watch. If you consider a Rolex to be your reference watch, cool, you’re a privileged minority.
vvv@programming.dev 4 weeks ago
and it’s potentially an existential threat.
oce@jlai.lu 4 weeks ago
Drying tears with dollar bills .gif
bobs_monkey@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
Even better, you work for one of the wealthiest corporations in the world with virtually unlimited resources at your disposal, and you still get your asses handed to you by a handful of people with laptops.
paraphrand@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
If they didn’t have to support the web, and various legacy platforms, the could lock it all down with drm more easily.
Quill7513@slrpnk.net 4 weeks ago
Hence Google’s proposal to DRM the web
b3an@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
And people’s response has shown its not easy or even working.
b3an@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
All the eggs in one basket? Computer nerds would never allow that.