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Re: YouTube ads are about to get even longer and they'll be unskippable

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Post by mrguyorama »

nerdsniper wrote: post #4

I just pay for YT Premium. I’m genuinely curious why that option is so controversial? Happy to get people’s thoughts. So I never see any ads and I feel like I get enough value for what I pay. It even helps me skip in-content ads with a single click.

Because Google does not build a platform that is beneficial to the creators who make actually good and productive and positive content.

I don't want give Google money for building a Mr Beast platform. I want the stuff Nebula does.

So I pay for Nebula.

Paying an advertising company to not show you ads doesn't make that company not an advertising company, and the problem is being an advertising company. It's corrosive to society and people.

Re: YouTube ads are about to get even longer and they'll be unskippable

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Post by ray023 »

Why are people even so dumb to use TV apps for a fucking TV? Just connect a "computer" to the TV and play YouTube with a mouse and KB and with Brave and Sponsor Block. If they ban adblockers and Sponsor Block there will be AI solutions that let you cut the ads out in the future.

Nobody should use shitty TV apps. It's like more convenient and practical to have some kind of PC like device attached to the TV for 100 other reasons as well. They are feeding this shit only to the dumb mass consumers who have no clue about anything.

"Just pay for YT premium" so that an evil megacorp is using your money against you, no, thanks! Donate to creators you like as directly as they allow it. They are also dumb and let Patreon or whatever suck large percentages off their donations for whatever retarded reason.

Re: YouTube ads are about to get even longer and they'll be unskippable

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Post by Ferret7446 »

MrWiffles wrote: post #17
nerdsniper wrote: post #4

I just pay for YT Premium. I’m genuinely curious why that option is so controversial? Happy to get people’s thoughts. So I never see any ads and I feel like I get enough value for what I pay. It even helps me skip in-content ads with a single click.

Privacy rights. Google’s ad surveillance eventually feeds ICE and its ilk, so I’ll not willingly reward this behavior.

Seems like the opposite? You can choose to either have ads or a paid subscription service. If you don't choose premium then you are implicitly supporting the "ad surveillance"

Re: YouTube ads are about to get even longer and they'll be unskippable

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Post by flykespice »

MrWiffles wrote: post #17
nerdsniper wrote: post #4

I just pay for YT Premium. I’m genuinely curious why that option is so controversial? Happy to get people’s thoughts. So I never see any ads and I feel like I get enough value for what I pay. It even helps me skip in-content ads with a single click.

Privacy rights. Google’s ad surveillance eventually feeds ICE and its ilk, so I’ll not willingly reward this behavior.

How much do you use Google services on your daily life (Google search, Gmail, Google pay..)?

You might have unaware handed more your personal info them than you know

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Post by michelangelo »

ray023 wrote: post #22

Why are people even so dumb to use TV apps for a fucking TV? Just connect a "computer" to the TV and play YouTube with a mouse and KB and with Brave and Sponsor Block. If they ban adblockers and Sponsor Block there will be AI solutions that let you cut the ads out in the future. Nobody should use shitty TV apps. It's like more convenient and practical to have some kind of PC like device attached to the TV for 100 oth…

> Why are people even so dumb to use TV apps for a fucking TV?

To address both the arrogant tone and the question itself: because sometimes people don’t have, don’t want to have or cannot use a computer connected to a TV.

Not everyone is a HN commenter with anger issues. Most of times these devices (TVs, streaming sticks and so on…) are used by normal folks that are not comfortable with computers.

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Post by downboots »

nerdsniper wrote: post #4

I just pay for YT Premium. I’m genuinely curious why that option is so controversial? Happy to get people’s thoughts. So I never see any ads and I feel like I get enough value for what I pay. It even helps me skip in-content ads with a single click.

It's a ransom.

Re: YouTube ads are about to get even longer and they'll be unskippable

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Post by SirFatty »

yifanl wrote: post #14
nerdsniper wrote: post #4

I just pay for YT Premium. I’m genuinely curious why that option is so controversial? Happy to get people’s thoughts. So I never see any ads and I feel like I get enough value for what I pay. It even helps me skip in-content ads with a single click.

You think explicitly highlighting that you're in the market segment that's happy to pay for online services will mean you will never see paid ads for online services again?

YouTube specifically? Yes.

Re: YouTube ads are about to get even longer and they'll be unskippable

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Post by gruez »

MrWiffles wrote: post #17
nerdsniper wrote: post #4

I just pay for YT Premium. I’m genuinely curious why that option is so controversial? Happy to get people’s thoughts. So I never see any ads and I feel like I get enough value for what I pay. It even helps me skip in-content ads with a single click.

Privacy rights. Google’s ad surveillance eventually feeds ICE and its ilk, so I’ll not willingly reward this behavior.

>Google’s ad surveillance eventually feeds ICE and its ilk

Is this a prediction about what might happen or a claim about what's happening right now? Also, there's plenty of reasons to object to government/adtech surveillance, but "youtube ads are going to help ICE deport people" is probably the worse examples that I can think of.

Re: YouTube ads are about to get even longer and they'll be unskippable

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Post by gonzalohm »

mrguyorama wrote: post #21
nerdsniper wrote: post #4

I just pay for YT Premium. I’m genuinely curious why that option is so controversial? Happy to get people’s thoughts. So I never see any ads and I feel like I get enough value for what I pay. It even helps me skip in-content ads with a single click.

Because Google does not build a platform that is beneficial to the creators who make actually good and productive and positive content. I don't want give Google money for building a Mr Beast platform. I want the stuff Nebula does. So I pay for Nebula. Paying an advertising company to not show you ads doesn't make that company not an advertising company, and the problem is being an advertising company. It's corrosive…

I also pay for Nebula. I wish more content creators moved to that platform. It's so annoying to deal with YouTube's homepage to find the videos of the creators that are not in Nebula
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