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Re: Video is Coming to Reddit

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Post by dragonwriter »

tinus_hn wrote: post #84
dragonwriter wrote: post #59

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> YouTube didn't build ContentID out of the kindness of their heart. It built it to settle a lawsuit that was on appeal that it kept winning (at summary judgement, twice) against Viacom, largely because YouTube’s long term goals were better served by friendly relations with big copyright holders.

> In addition, to be eligible for any of the limitations, a service provider must meet two overall conditions: (1) [...] and (2) it must accommodate and not interfere with “standard technical measures.” (Section 512(i)). “Standard technical measures” are defined as measures that copyright owners use to identify or protect copyrighted works, that have been developed pursuant to a broad consensus of copyright owners an…

That's not a requirement to implement their own detection measures, TS a requirement not to obstruct copyright owners detection measures.

Re: Video is Coming to Reddit

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Post by parthdesai »

paulcole wrote: post #90
parthdesai wrote: post #85

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reddit is the only site that i have white listed because the ads on it aren't obtrusive. If i have to watch a 30 second ad for a 15 second video, i personally find it annoying and obtrusive. I'll gladly donate to reddit via other means to show my support.

What moral objection are you planning to use to avoid paying for Reddit Gold?

Who said i'm avoiding it? When reddit starts to roll out video ads, i'll buy reddit gold and use ad-blocker at the same time.

Re: Video is Coming to Reddit

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Post by fweespeech »

paulcole wrote: post #82
fweespeech wrote: post #74

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Some of us just genuinely hate autoplay ads.

Yeah I mean who likes them? But if I like the content on a site, I'll watch them. Who knows, maybe I will see something I want to buy.

I just start blacklisting sites with those tbh. Just refuse to use them altogether. No content is worth the annoyance.

Re: Video is Coming to Reddit

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Post by digitalzombie »

nerfhammer wrote: post #56
digitalzombie wrote: post #45

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> Sure, video is expensive, but now they have a much bigger revenue opportunity. They can't monetize videos they don't host. I totally see your point but shouldn't they monetize what they have now before go on to tackle other revenue venture? Or is it better to tackle all possible revenue venture at the same time? I feel like it's stretches them thin no?

They will be able to say they decreased their outbound user metric by X% and can report that to their investors to prove growth.

This is why I hate the business side of business.

Especially in startup, it seems like they're always looking for way to get their investor to invest more. There are many cases where I thought it being so shady.

I acknowledge business people and what they do but there are things in the this industry where it's just not for me.

Re: Video is Coming to Reddit

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Post by weego »

Sir_Cmpwn wrote: post #4

I've only encountered it a few times but it seems everyone dislikes it. The player is pretty bad. Then again, Reddit jumped the shark some time ago.

I ignore any link to v.reddit. the player and experience is garbage. And it's not a problem you can just solve because you want to, there are plenty of dedicated web video companies that do it with varying competence from average to badly (vimeo, dailymotion).

Re: Video is Coming to Reddit

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Post by tome »

passivepinetree wrote: post #77
tome wrote: post #75

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Even simpler, Ad Block Plus or UBlock Origin block adverts on YouTube. I'm not sure which it is because I've got both, but I definitely notice the annoying difference when I watch YouTube on another browser!

uBlock Origin definitely does. I thought there might have been a downside to using multiple adblockers...is that not the case?

I've never noticed a problem using both.

Re: Video is Coming to Reddit

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Post by NTripleOne »

gooeyblob wrote: post #86
zitterbewegung wrote: post #52

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Yes, well subreddits are starting to be hostile to reddits own image service getting to the point that the service is banned on some of them. I thought that their own image service would bring back missed revenue from imgur (which it has appeared to do since it has caught on). Unfortunately to do this they designed it to disallow direct image links (and the reason that it is banned).

Direct links have never been disallowed, either by design or policy, so not sure where you're getting that.

Reddit, by default, does practically everything in its power it can to stop you from getting the direct link to the reddit-hosted image.

Not to mention it's just downright slower than imgur.

Although, it's not like imgur is without fault nowadays, in their continued efforts to foster their own (IMO, awful) community off of the back of another (Reddit), it is nigh-on impossible to go directly to an image on the mobile site now - instead you get forced back to their gallery-style page full of 'related content', which only serves to slow the loading of the shit I actually want to see.

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