• NocturnalEngineer@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    I never had an issue with YT’s 1-2 skipable ads at the beginning, or even the banner ad. But they got greedy.

    The midrolls and the unskipable ads was the trigger point for me.

    • SeaJ@lemm.ee
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      10 months ago

      I was fine with even having a couple very short unskippable ads every other video. Now it is all of them with one in the middle of videos longer than 5 minutes. And then of course the content creator has to put in an ad because YouTube does not pay shit for views.

    • captainlezbian@lemmy.world
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      10 months ago

      Yeah and I wouldn’t even mind like 5 minutes of ads at the beginning compared to randomly dispersed in the middle

      • Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        10 months ago

        Oh sure, let me watch 5 MINUTES before watching a 7min clip.
        Dedicated 5min are only marginally justified if the content is >60 minutes in length.

    • Kidplayer_666@lemm.ee
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      10 months ago

      I mean, they didn’t get greedy, as far as everyone knows they are losing a ton of money (at least if you can extrapolate anytbing from the fact that twitch is massively unprofitable)