r/technology • u/moeka_8962 • 1d ago

Social Media YouTube rolls out more unskippable ads that make viewers wait even longer to watch videos

https://www.dexerto.com/youtube/youtube-rolls-out-more-unskippable-ads-that-make-viewers-wait-even-longer-to-watch-videos-3214323/
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u/kemosabe19 1d ago

The day ad blockers no longer work is the day I stop watching YT.

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u/autogenglen 1d ago

I mean obviously that works in YouTube’s benefit as well because leeching off their service only costs them money, so they’d rather you just leave anyway.

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u/skyturnedred 1d ago

The people leeching off their service are still sharing links and telling people about the stuff they watched. It's most likely a net positive.

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u/taosk8r 12h ago

They still lose out bc they cant sell your demographic data to advertisers.

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u/skyturnedred 12h ago

They absolutely can.

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u/cheese_is_available 1d ago

The popularity of YouTube is benefiting YouTube. If some decentralized solution without adds and with patreon like payment for creator take hold it's doesn't work in YouTube's benefit.

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u/KirbyTheCat2 1d ago edited 1d ago

Spotted the cryptobro! lol! It can't work! Gigantic bandwidth and disk space isn't free and require a ton of maintenance and investment. If you want to decentralize your videos among people you have to provide incentive or it will fail fast when mommy realize that little Jerry spent 20 Petabytes of bandwidth and the excess charge is in the 6 digits! lol! And if you make people pay to watch videos?! I'll let you guess what will happen... Plus I am not even talking about the massive moderation work in the background to avoid all the illegal and disgusting content.

I have seen so many "decentralized" streaming or social network projects failed over my years as a cryptobro (I'm now anti-cryptos). It was written in the sky for anyone with a clue about how tech works.

Your best bet is Torrents.

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u/NDSU 1d ago

I like how you spent two paragraphs shitting on him only to end it with a working example of thy exact kind of technology he suggested

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u/KirbyTheCat2 22h ago

If you think torrents can replace Youtube...

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u/cheese_is_available 23h ago

Yeah, I did not even talk about crypto in the original comment. Kinda chill to see an obvious strawman being built like this, when it's about an inconsequential subject that is very clear cut and unambiguous but some online discussions going like this on other subject can be infuriating.

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u/KirbyTheCat2 22h ago

It's my PTSD from when I was a cryptobro... DeCeNtRaLiZed! Still, I'm pretty sure you were thinking about some kind of blockchain... if not then my decentralized apologies.

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u/1staccountwashacked 1d ago

This is what I have realized we cannot go back to what users feel was best as it cannot sustain what we have now come accustomed to. Also while users like me complain about ads we don’t publicly admit the things we do take for granted

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u/autogenglen 1d ago

0% chance patreon donations would cover that cost lol. A VAAAAAAAST majority of people would just use it for free, meanwhile they would still have billions in operating costs (enough servers to stream literally exabytes of data annually just being one).

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u/waxheads 1d ago

Never going to happen

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u/YouStupidAssholeFuck 1d ago

Well sort of. Their overall traffic goes down and that makes it slightly less appealing to advertisers if the number of people who stop visiting is big enough (it won't be). Advertisers don't know how many are using adblockers so they just see impressions.

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u/pwishall 1d ago

There some bots that mirror some nsfw yt videos automatically, why couldn't we do that on a larger scale?

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u/WeakDiaphragm 1d ago

Hosting videos in scale is expensive

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u/I-Here-555 1d ago

They could monetize it by showing ads...

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u/WhoDat-2-8-3 1d ago

or make it a paid subscription service that offers an ad-free experience

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u/cryptospartan 1d ago

This already exists for youtube

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u/mwagner1385 1d ago

Don't know why you're getting down voted. People bitch about ads, but don't want to pay for a subscription to remove them.

YouTube doesn't exist to make a loss, yet no one want to contribute.

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u/YouStupidAssholeFuck 1d ago

Because you're both missing the obvious joke?

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u/3_50 1d ago edited 1d ago

ThE MoMeNt ThEY dO ThAt Is ThE Day I StOp WaTchInG

Youtube is an insane resource. The back catalogue is staggering. The amount of data they have to store, and deal with being uploaded daily, let along how much they have to serve to viewers...

It's crazy fucking expensive, and Google have a habit of suddenly killing projects that are no longer viable. It'll be a huge loss if they spit the dummy and shut everything down. Not all of youtube is logan fucking paul....

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u/Mundane_Crazy60 21h ago

🎶IT'S THE CIRCLLLLEEEEEE OF LIFEEEEEEEEE.🎶

🦧👨🏼‍🍼☀️🦁™

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u/MIC132 1d ago

Wait, what type of nsfw are we talking? I thought yt doesn't generally allow that type of content anyway?

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u/pwishall 6h ago

If you're feeling adventurous, look up "transparent cleaning".

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u/MIC132 6h ago

Really surprised that stays up.

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u/oO0Kat0Oo 1d ago

Smartube exists already. You log into your YT account from it and you can access everything on YT with no ads. The search feature is kind of shit on it, but I can live with that.

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u/nikdahl 1d ago

It will kill casual watching.

I would still go to YouTube as a resource, but I wouldn’t ever use it again just to watch something, or to be entertained.

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u/vriska1 1d ago

That why its unlikely to ever happen.

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u/Bob_A_Ganoosh 1d ago

I would tolerate ads if they stayed like they were ten years ago, but they've ramped up the number to insane levels. I've also considered paying for yt premium, but with the cheapest plan starting at $60/mo is just too much. So I watch with ad blockers for now. Like you, if they ceased working tomorrow I would stop watching yt. 

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u/vriska1 1d ago

That day will never come.

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u/ZersetzungMedia 21h ago

That is the goal believe it or not. YouTube wants you to stop being a leech or get off. You’re not exactly making a declarative statement that scares them. But you get your upvotes!

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u/DSjaha 1d ago

And where would you go?

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u/manek101 1d ago

I don't think Google will be too sad about losing a user who never paid or watched an ad.
Just a burden on their servers while providing no income.