google has destroyed youtube with ads

Dec 3, 2021 49 Comments

there are way too many ads on videos these days , now they do 2 ads playing before the video and a lot of times its unskippable. Sure you can use adblock or the vance app but I'm talking about the product. Youtube premium and youtube gaming are wastes of time. Who ok'd all these trash ass changes?

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  • New / Mgmt
    πŸ’₯ asicGal

    New Mgmt

    πŸ’₯ asicGal
    Get YouTube premium. I’m sure Microsoft is paying you enough.
    Dec 3, 2021 9
  • I thoroughly agree. It makes sense from a monetization perspective, but wow, it feels unusable now. I feel like it's probably worse for us older folks that are used to the internet before everything had ads. The truth is that everything is built this way now
    Dec 3, 2021 1
    • New
      Mrrb83

      New

      Mrrb83
      holla ILMN πŸ‘‹
      Dec 3, 2021
  • SAP
    uXuV60

    Go to company page SAP

    uXuV60
    Taking advantage of monopoly
    Dec 3, 2021 0
  • Amazon
    visaSlave

    Go to company page Amazon

    BIO
    Bio? fuck off, Blind.
    visaSlave
    They had to to do it aggressively because more people started blocking ads aggressively. Why can't they just get around ad blocking... after all they are the best tech company in the world
    Dec 3, 2021 5
    • No, it still needs some watermark to tell the user that it's an ad. You can programatically fast forward the video when the ad watermark is present.
      Dec 3, 2021
    • Amazon
      visaSlave

      Go to company page Amazon

      BIO
      Bio? fuck off, Blind.
      visaSlave
      And a browser extension will have permission to see what's in the video? How about watermarks other than ads? How would you distinguish between them programmatically?
      Dec 3, 2021
  • I feel you have taken it for granted. All that infrastructure needed for YouTube is not free.
    Dec 3, 2021 3
    • How is it profitable without ads?
      Dec 4, 2021
    • Yahoo
      wqlk3cxjxz

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      wqlk3cxjxz
      It's not a discussion of ads vs. no ads. It's a normal amount of ads vs. a shit load of ads.

      Seriously, what are youtubes expenses? Engineers and to maintain site costs? There is a reason tech companies have insane valuations relative to their revenue -- they are super profitable
      Dec 4, 2021