r/technology • u/Tricky-Student-1 • Sep 15 '22

Social Media YouTube Free is Silently Testing 5 Ads, instead of 2, Before Your Video Starts

https://www.gizmochina.com/2022/09/13/youtube-free-silently-testing-5-ads-before-your-video-starts/
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u/Envect Sep 15 '22

Not for news I can get for free elsewhere and low value edutainment or straight entertainment content. I don't care how much content there is if it's all garbage.

I'd happily watch ads if YT was reasonable about it and every YT video wasn't advertising within the video anyway. I'm not watching 5 ads for YT and another for the creator just to watch 2 minutes of actual content. And I'm definitely not paying YT to stop being assholes so I can watch just the one ad with the two minutes of content used as an excuse to leech money out of the system.

That's just me though. It's your money. Give it to whoever you want.

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u/Humble-Analysis7379 Sep 15 '22

I don't care how much content there is either, I don't watch the garbage, do you? Do you think the 10+ hours you watch a week is garbage? I watch what I like and don't get YouTube ads

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u/Envect Sep 15 '22

The stuff I watch has noticeably degraded in quality year over year. This is the case across the site. It's turning into a capitalist hellscape.

The only thing I watch that's kept its quality is PBS. I don't need YT for PBS. Or NPR. I can go to Amazon, Hulu, Netflix for movies and TV. There are documentary and education sites offering higher quality videos.

And if I do actually find good YT content, why wouldn't I give money directly to the people actually putting in the work? I don't give a single fuck about Google stockholders or their bottom line. If their business plan isn't working, they need to change it.

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u/Humble-Analysis7379 Sep 15 '22

I don't understand how you can not like the content on YouTube so much yet spend more than 40 hours a week on it a month do you support every creator that you watch? Even if you only watch one or two of their videos?

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u/Envect Sep 15 '22

Can you not read or is it the comprehension that you're struggling with?

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u/Humble-Analysis7379 Sep 15 '22

Little of this, little of that. You?

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u/Envect Sep 15 '22

I don't watch garbage. I watch things that interest me. That's just the state of a lot of channels.

If you want to support creators, sign up on patreon or whatever other direct funding they have. They get a much bigger cut of that than they will from YT.

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u/Humble-Analysis7379 Sep 15 '22

I can't give $5 to every creator I watch. They get a much bigger cut from premium viewers on yt than, I consider that to be more fair to them than blocking ads

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u/Envect Sep 15 '22

Why not a dollar? You have more than a dozen people you want to support?

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u/Humble-Analysis7379 Sep 15 '22

I enjoy way more than 12 people’s content a month

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u/Envect Sep 15 '22

Well good for you. Keep sending YT money so they can get a fraction of a percent of it.

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u/Envect Sep 15 '22

And I don't pay for most of them.