r/technology • u/moeka_8962 • Jan 25 '25

Social Media Frustrated YouTube viewers seek explanation for hour-long unskippable ads (Update: Statement)

https://www.androidauthority.com/youtube-long-unskippable-ads-problem-3519957/
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u/GL1TCH3D Jan 25 '25

All because capitalism dictated that we start inserting more and more ads into everything in the first place because profit, and ads not being screened before going live and promoting viruses and scams.

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u/Plastic-Ad9036 Jan 25 '25

Or because people refuse to pay for a service that presents them with 4.4 billion videos on any imagineable topic

There’s no reason this should be a free service but people don’t want to pay; hence another monetization method has to be found

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u/Degenemora Jan 25 '25

Tbh I don’t know why you’re being downvoted. These services cost a lot of money to run. Video hosting is damn expensive, and as time goes on the cost will only go up. You are getting it for free. Obviously hour long ads are unacceptable, but you can’t expect it to operate with no way to make money. What other way would people suggest?

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u/AberrantDrone Jan 25 '25

Because people hate paying money for anything they can get for free instead.

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u/Degenemora Jan 25 '25

Well, yeah, but it’s only free because of the ads. If people wanted a platform with no ads then they’d need to fund it in other ways, or the platform would cease to be.