• JustARegularNerd@aussie.zone
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      11 个月前

      I think there’s no tenable solution unfortunately, but for me personally, as a viewer, I’d be happy to watch a single start video ad if I knew a half decent proportion went to the creator.

      But with the way YouTube is to the creators, how unfair and unbalanced they are with copyright, the clear vision that they’re not doing things for the people but for corporate (removal of dislike count), I have no guilt continuing to block ads and essentially give the finger to the platform.

      Once all the major creators I watch move to a better platform, I’d be rid of YouTube entirely in my life and I hope that’s what happens on a major scale.

      • HobbitFoot @thelemmy.club
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        11 个月前

        Gmail makes sense as money maker. Running email at the scale they do is really cheap and they can run ads against it.

        One YouTube video probably uses as much bandwidth as a month’s worth of a typical account’s usage.

          • HobbitFoot @thelemmy.club
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            11 个月前

            Gmail made sense for Google when it was released. No one questioned it as there were already several other players in the market. The only real selling point at that time was Google offering 1 GB of storage for free with ads while other services were offering less. That other services switched to meet Google’s number rather quickly was more a sign that Google priced storage per user better at the time while other services had kept their legacy storage allowances.

    • jwagner7813@lemmy.world
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      11 个月前

      Plenty of ways. Targeting your most intensive tech crowd is not the way to do it. You want the masses that don’t actively try and block their stupid ads. This will eventually bite them in the ass harder then it’s currently doing.

      • HobbitFoot @thelemmy.club
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        11 个月前

        You want the masses that don’t actively try and block their stupid ads.

        So you’re saying that YouTube shouldn’t want people with adblockers as users of the platform?

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          11 个月前

          No I’m saying, imo, they’re wasting a lot of energy on trying to get adblock users to stop using adblockers. Just my take, is all.