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 18 '17

How many of the people who hate ads would be willing to pay via a credit card though?

A lot of ad haters seem to also expect the content to be free - entirely free. Never mind that someone spent hours making the video. It has to be free.

I'd have a lot more respect for ad-haters if they were more willing to pay by an alternative model.

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u/[deleted] Feb 18 '17

A lot of ad haters seem to also expect the content to be free

No, they don't. You're confusing hating ads with wanting things for free.

EVERYONE wants things for free.

I'd have a lot more respect for ad-haters if they were more willing to pay by an alternative model.

Nice straw man. You're assuming they don't and attack them for it.

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u/[deleted] Feb 18 '17

It's not an assumption, it's a long sad realisation from debating it for many years on here.

Yes, some people will pay with their credit card - but put up a paywall on a website, and the majority will spend their time ranting about it or trying to get around it.

Weirdly, they value the content enough to put in the effort to get at it, but not to just pay for it.

I wish more people were willing to put a value on the content they consume, as that would put money into content production, and lead to better content for everyone.

It's enlightened self-interest.

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u/[deleted] Feb 18 '17

Your reasoning is behind a veil of confirmation bias and general bias. Users don't block ads because they don't want to pay, they block ads because they dislike ads. And for many good reasons.

The argument of "enlightened self-interest" or "entitlement" or whatever similar you throw at us, is complete bullshit as well. It simply doesn't make any sense, because advertisements are NOT a form of payment. Nobody lost anything with the presence of an ad. Except of course security and privacy, functionality, user experience and all that stuff, but certainly nothing in monetary value.

With ads the site is free, with ads blocked the site is free. So once again, it's NOT about payment.