YouTube will now show ads on all videos even if creators don’t want them

Post by thdrdt » Thu, Nov 19, 2020, 3:22 PM UTC

oritsnile wrote: post #156

bsharitt wrote: post #61

I get why people are mad that something that exists is changing, though at this point I've stopped being surprised when something that was free either stops being free or has the free offering diminished. This particularly was a very weird setup where if you didn't want a share of ad revenue, you got to use the service completely for free. While Google offers ad free YouTube to users, it'd be nice if they offered a w…

Honestly I'm quite surprised that it happened not sooner, considering how may gigabytes of video are uploaded each day, of which only a fraction makes YouTube money.

Post by driverdan » Thu, Nov 19, 2020, 3:23 PM UTC

jesuscyborg wrote: post #155

YouTube has a demonetization feature too. Let's say you run a programming tutorials channel that's too small to monetize and you don't want Google layering ads over your content. Just crosspost something like a Tim Pool video and hope the YouTube AI categorizes your channel as too toxic for advertisers. Otherwise it'll be interesting to see how the standard changes when Google is the sole beneficiary. That money is t…

Post by 8ytecoder » Thu, Nov 19, 2020, 3:23 PM UTC

helmholtz wrote: post #165

leipert wrote: post #80

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Been using a different mail provider for 5 years. Just the other month google deleted my gmail account (had it set up to delete after a year of no-login) It is quite easy to migrate: 1. get a new mail account 2. forward everything from your gmail account 3. sort everything GMail into a separate folder in your new account 4. slowly change email addresses in accounts and let people know your new address. I think after…

Might I ask what password manager you use? And what do you do when you need to access websites from a machine that isn't yours? Also, did you consider the single-point-of-failure argument? I would like to know your opinion on that.

Post by driverdan » Thu, Nov 19, 2020, 3:24 PM UTC

kevincox wrote: post #144

gtirloni wrote: post #78

Why not pay for Youtube Premium? We're often talking about how we would gladly pay to keep a sustainable product going on but people are outraged that a _free_ service is increasing monetization through ads. I think Youtube is great, it's where I find a lot of content, I use it a lot and not seeing ads makes a huge difference. Plus, Youtube Music is great value for the price.

I used to pay for YouTube premium. But I left and switched to adblocking after it kept getting worse (YouTube is one of the few sites that I use an adblocker on). - YouTube Music is awful, not a halfway decent product to replace the good Play Music. - Stopped sending emails for video uploads (I know, I'm weird) - "Premier" videos started to be shown in the RSS feeds. So now I am notified of stuff I can't even watch y…

Post by thendrill » Thu, Nov 19, 2020, 3:25 PM UTC

bsd44 wrote: post #118

As a content consumer I see this as a positive thing for me. A few months ago when YouTube decided to auto-add ads on all videos, my watch time on YouTube decreased by more than 50% since I consume all video content on either my phone or my tablet (where I don't have access to AdBlock), and I find the amount of ads I have to go through to watch a video so annoying that I'd rather not watch it at all. As a result I sp…