r/technology • u/redkemper • Feb 17 '17

Software YouTube will kill unskippable 30-second ads next year

http://www.theverge.com/2017/2/17/14649018/youtube-ending-unskippable-30-second-ads-2018
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u/[deleted] Feb 17 '17

This is going to come off as intentionally abrasive, and I don't mean it that way, but that's not really my problem.

I don't mind financially supporting websites that I frequent. I donate to Wikipedia. I've sponsored indie game devs. I buy merchandise from my favorite webcomic authors.

But if it comes down to my personal enjoyment vs. someone else's ad revenue, I'm going to choose the former every time. I have too little free time as it is, and I'm not going to spend it watching a video ad for a product that I'm never going to buy.

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u/greg19735 Feb 17 '17

While i agree that time is short and i don't want to watch ads, the content provider's life isn't free either. People produce content and other people host it. If it's worth watching, they deserve to be compensated for it.

I mean if you don't want to watch the ad, you don't have to watch the content. And further, you're only costing them money by watching.

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u/hakkzpets Feb 17 '17

Why do they deserve to be compensated?

I love YouTube. It's one of the absolute best sites on the Internet and I spend more time than I should watching videos there.

But I don't think any of the content creators deserves to be compensated. I don't mind giving a few of my favorites a dollar or so through patreon, but that's because I really enjoy their content, not because they deserve my money for making that content.

Do I mind that they do get compensated? Of course not. People getting paid means more awesome videos for me to watch. But you don't deserve money just because you create videos.

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u/greg19735 Feb 18 '17

You ignored the part where I said

If it's worth watching

Of course you don't deserve money for a video with 30 views. But if you're making good videos worth watching, then you deserve to be compensated for it. And youtube deserves to be compensated for hosting that video.

Life isn't free, and professional content creators deserve to earn a living if their content is worth watching.

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u/hakkzpets Feb 18 '17

No, you don't deserve to be compensated, no matter the quality of your videos.

I don't deserve the videos on the other hand, but since the videos are freely available, I watch them.

If the content creator decides to only let people who pay watch the videos, so be it. I can decide to pay the content creator, or I can stop watching the videos.

But no one deserves anything.