Comment on YouTube is Losing The War Against Adblockers
pete_the_cat@lemmy.world 4 weeks agoA 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.
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.
I know right… Why should content creators be able to make money from content. Am I right?
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.
The knives are out for Patreon. Apple is looking to carve a big chunk out of that revenue. Google and Amazon (owner of Twitch) will not be far behind. Believe me, Google and Twitch are very unhappy that creators skip the platform monetization methods and just tell viewers to go to Patreon to bypass the heavy commissions.
Patreon deserves to die, their cut of the subscription income is extortionate for what amounts to a very limited web hosting platform.
Open-source alternatives like Mirlo or Cloud Patron will take its place, it’s only a matter of time.
Great time for Patreon to expand more into content delivery.
The same reasons as open source software devs.
Some content creators but not most of them. A lot of open source software advertises too.
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.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Only a matter of time before LLMs start injecting their own ads into these responses.
pennomi@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Nah, local LLMs are easily in the range of transcribe/summarize. I bet you could do that nicely with llama 8B without even needing a gpu.
seaQueue@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
By that point I’m pretty sure we’ll have an effective compact model that can run locally and transcribe downloaded videos on reasonable hardware. Or you can just sic a paid model like chatgpt on the task. The corporate Internet is entirely focused on subscription service models now, unless you run the model yourself on local hardware you’re going to end up paying someone somewhere a service fee.
Wildly_Utilize@infosec.pub 4 weeks ago
Local and open source
med@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
I think I need this, finally a real use for ‘ai’.
The amount of how to videos you have to watch through, when all you want is one little piece of info you should be able to search or scan for has been a problem since before the internet figured out how to increase clicks by making a web page in to slides.
Can you link me a how-to video on how to get startedt and send me a summary from your working setup?
seaQueue@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
It’s just two steps, first get a transcript from the video somehow (use the whisper API if you’re willing to pay a small amount or just Google “transcribe YouTube video” and look for an ad supported site that’ll do it via Google.) Second: use chatgpt or local llama to summarize the transcript.
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.
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Don’t worry. Linux is only 4% of the total computer market. They aren’t bothered with you because Linux isn’t worth it.
Shdwdrgn@mander.xyz 4 weeks ago
That’s fine, we’re happy to keep the better choice to ourselves. 😆
octopus_ink@lemmy.ml 4 weeks ago
Oh well, sucks to be us! /s
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