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Youtube Depends on Ads to work (poptalk.scrubbles.tech)

Seriously launched the app (by accident today) and what is this? They're trying to play the victim from the big bad ad blockers saying all they're doing is trying to show an ad at the beginning of video, and then I see all of this crap.

This was after a non-skippable ad at the beginning followed by a totally real "survey" that it wanted me to fill out, one interruption so far in the content, and now three ads on the screen. That's 45% of the screen dedicated to ads. Freaking ridiculous. "But please turn off your ad blocker".

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[-] tony@lemmy.hoyle.me.uk 32 points 7 months ago

Ads pay miniscule amounts per view.. I've heard it said the £12/month sub is about hundreds of times what they get from ad revenue per user. So they spam them everywhere.. the more ads the better.

Which means people block the ads because they're obnoxious, and they make nothing..

[-] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 37 points 7 months ago

which in turn makes them add more ads, which makes more people block them, which makes them add more ads... and the cycle continues.

Honestly if they stuck, and I mean actually stuck to "You know what, one ad, beginning of the video, unskippable, and the rest of the video (and content below, and everything) will be ad free until you start a new video - I'd do it. I'd honestly be okay with that. But it's just so overbearing, everywhere is meant to draw your eye to ads, so no, I'll do everything I can to get around them.

[-] Pika@sh.itjust.works 15 points 7 months ago

Or if they went back to their old advertisement model, remember when you used to get in line advertisements that played at the bottom of the video. I remember those they weren't intrusive to the video content and you still saw them. It wasn't obnoxious as hell and I would bd ok with that

[-] Z3k3@lemmy.world 8 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Those inclined things drove me nuts. Might be a cultu thing in terms of how tv works.

I have seen recordings of American tv where things like that would advertise the next show so I guess people got stained to mote or less ignore them.

It's not a thing that caught on here. At least not while I still had a tv.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 7 points 7 months ago

That's one of the reasons I'm ok paying for premium. Creators get paid more.

[-] RooPappy@kbin.social 12 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Or you could pay for Nebula instead of the company causing the problem. Or you could contribute to their Patreon.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 10 points 7 months ago

I could if the people I watched weren't on YouTube.

[-] FrostyPolicy@suppo.fi 2 points 7 months ago
[-] 1rre@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 7 months ago

Depends on the ad and how much you use the premium...

I've watched so much they would've absolutely made more money showing me ads (based on my best guess for how much margin they should make on ads, which I think I can estimate pretty well, vs premium as I know less about costs etc. there) but I guess it's not the case for everyone

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