Google starts punishing AdBlock users with unskippable YouTube video ads

[·:Taboo:·]

However, for things like YouTube, where videos and such are the main content, I think video ads are justified.

This is the most backassward logic I've ever seen. Let me rephrase what you just said for you:
"For video entertainment, it makes the most sense to obstruct the entertainment."

[Ad Bot]

[Ayxrion]

Go forget yourself, you know a lot of YouTubers put more time than just recording into their work.

however this is true, youtubers that actually spend time on their work is overridden w/ people who just slap a facecam on, an intro/outro and play a game
or just hold the camera to yourself and talk about how your life is better.

good youtubers that actually spend time on their videos are hard to come by nowadays.

[Freek]

however this is true, youtubers that actually spend time on their work is overridden w/ people who just slap a facecam on, an intro/outro and play a game
or just hold the camera to yourself and talk about how your life is better.

good youtubers that actually spend time on their videos are hard to come by nowadays.

This

[TristanLuigi]

This is the most backassward logic I've ever seen. Let me rephrase what you just said for you:
"For video entertainment, it makes the most sense to obstruct the entertainment."

...yeah, sorta. My point is that the ads shouldn't be more active than the actual content. So if you're reading a news site, made of still text and images, then the ads should be still text and images. For a video site, the ads can be videos.

[-Setro-]

stop using adblock plus and use ublock
way less ram usage

[Oasis]

however this is true, youtubers that actually spend time on their work is overridden w/ people who just slap a facecam on, an intro/outro and play a game
or just hold the camera to yourself and talk about how your life is better.

good youtubers that actually spend time on their videos are hard to come by nowadays.

Sure.

[Glass Joe]

you know, instead of hugely intrusive video ads, they should instead make non-distracting banner ads and scatter them all over the side of the page or so

[bestguy22]

good yoobtoobers exist?? woahh

[·:Taboo:·]

...yeah, sorta. My point is that the ads shouldn't be more active than the actual content. So if you're reading a news site, made of still text and images, then the ads should be still text and images. For a video site, the ads can be videos.

"Instead of being more active than the content, they should just replace it."
Why should they be videos? The presence of a video on the page does not suddenly wipe banner ads from existence, they can still be present.

[TristanLuigi]

"Instead of being more active than the content, they should just replace it."
Why should they be videos? The presence of a video on the page does not suddenly wipe banner ads from existence, they can still be present.

Advertisers probably wouldn't pay nearly as much for banner ads - it's better than nothing, but probably not enough to support huge server costs and still give some money to the channels. I don't like watching video ads either, but I think it's a small price to pay for a good and free service - and almost all ads are skippable. It just sucks that some people feel that they are entitled to said service and can't take time out of their day to support it, and the cost (in terms of number of unskippable ads, for instance) falls to the rest of us. Yes, I could solve that by blacklisting YouTube, but then I'm no better, and if everyone did that YouTube would shut down.

[shitlord]

hey guys
what if i told you
most of the money you make as a youtuber is not from the ads
but from views
so please stop this bullstuff "they need money1!11" argument

[dargereldren]

Doesn't look like the first time it happened.

[Ragequit]

hey guys
what if i told you
most of the money you make as a youtuber is not from the ads
but from views
so please stop this bullstuff "they need money1!11" argument

dude it's been established that jewgle takes the money to run youtube

[Nonnel]

hey guys
what if i told you
most of the money you make as a youtuber is not from the ads
but from views
so please stop this bullstuff "they need money1!11" argument

Youtubers get money from views because of ads
Money doesn't just materialize out of thin air whenever people press a Youtube link

[Clubbybot]

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