wow just wow while i can’t say i didn’t see this one coming but it always amazes me where greed could lead someone

  • Jufu@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    The majority of people don’t use any form of ad block, especially on mobile so i’m not sure your argument holds there. I don’t see how Youtube wanting to monetize its users somehow will make the quality go to shit? Centralized things need to be monetized, and as much as we all would like it, a mainstream decentralized video streaming platform is not realistic given current tech.

    I don’t personally see this as in the same category as what Twitter and Reddit are doing.

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      1 year ago

      The only piss off for me with the Youtube ads is they used to be reasonable 5 second ads. Now they are just absurd with multiple multi-minute ads. Yes you can sometimes skip them but it is so unfriendly to the user.