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> it's kind of a shitty move by Google. It's kind of business as usual for Google. Why would anyone expect them to be kind and generous suddenly when they have consistently for years pulled the rug out underneath previosly-free services. (or killed them off completely https://killedbygoogle.com/ ) gmail subscriptions are next, just wait and see.
What do you mean by gmail subs?
Hacker News User Will Continue to Run uBlock Origin on All Sites Including YouTube Even If Webmasters Don't Want Him To
I think technically it would be pretty easy for google to embed ads into videos in a way that would be hard to impossible to block.
(Edit: my children comments are right)
Edit: I need to emphasise that the ads were occasional, and probably YouTube will be more agressive this time. I've also realised that many of you are using some sort of ad-blocker, so you might not felt the changes when it was (silently) rolled out years ago, but this is from my experience using YouTube on devices which I cannot install an ad-blocker (like in some instructional videos for certain robots which some c…
At present, if you choose not to monetize a video, no ads get shown unless a third part makes a copyright claim on your video.
I'm not quite sure about the situation with ads that show up in the corner of the page - those are unobtrusive enough that I'm used to mentally tuning them out.
I know there are several content creators (such as Jim Sterling) that have their videos ad-free as a perk for their supporters (since he's supported enough via Patreon). He's pretty angry about this change. I somewhat understand Google's stance on this, as it's a service that should be allowed to make money even on people who don't want to make money. They don't really have such a way to opt out of pretty much any ot…
If let's say that google charges 1$ (or more, adjust yourself) per gb of stored video, or 1$ per 20gb of bandwidth use to opt out of ads, will it be better?
The point is to kill competition so they can settle in and collect rent.
Also, start looking into peertube. While its still long ways from a competing software, its going strong and the more people join it, the better will be the network effect.
Hacker News User Will Continue to Run uBlock Origin on All Sites Including YouTube Even If Webmasters Don't Want Him To
I think technically it would be pretty easy for google to embed ads into videos in a way that would be hard to impossible to block.
(I even think the DASH segmentation would allow them to this without reencoding the original video, but that's just speculation on my part)
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I think technically it would be pretty easy for google to embed ads into videos in a way that would be hard to impossible to block.
It would be very expensive, though, as they would have to recode videos constantly. (Edit: my children comments are right)
Hacker News User Will Continue to Run uBlock Origin on All Sites Including YouTube Even If Webmasters Don't Want Him To
I think technically it would be pretty easy for google to embed ads into videos in a way that would be hard to impossible to block.