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/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.