[HN Gopher] YouTube videos are skipping to the end for users wit...
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YouTube videos are skipping to the end for users with adblockers
Author : josephcsible
Score : 12 points
Date : 2024-05-27 19:14 UTC (3 hours ago)
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(TXT) w3m dump (9to5google.com)
| grobbyy wrote:
| Google has entered into a phase where short term profits outweigh
| long term growth.
|
| If you're a startup, don't do this. Maximizing the growth
| exponent does a lot more than tweaks on per-user revenue.
| Intentionally annoying users is bad business.
|
| When companies do this, it's also good to look at PE ratios,
| since it suggests they don't anticipate growth.
| lkdfjlkdfjlg wrote:
| > Google has entered into a phase where short term profits
| outweigh long term growth.
|
| I has entered this phase at least 10 years ago.
| pompino wrote:
| It might well be good for business, but I'm cheering that the
| slow erosion of trust with Google continues and leads to their
| demise in a decade or so. The cherry on the cake would be if we
| can get lawmakers with a backbone to put such companies in
| check.
| zeruch wrote:
| "Google has entered into a phase where short term profits
| outweigh long term growth."
|
| Indeed. The question I have is does that mean it goes
| eventually the way of Microsoft/IBM, or the way of SGI/Computer
| Associates?
| khrbrt wrote:
| Thank God, now I can finally kick my YouTube addiction.
| downrightmike wrote:
| Don't use Adblock, use ublock origin, that Dev actually gives a
| shit and isn't taking ad money on the backend.
| camel-cdr wrote:
| Hypothetically, what could they do against a potential script
| that pre-downloads all new videos from my subscriptions (RSS, but
| could also pull channels once a day), and detect and remove the
| ads?
|
| Or an extension/program that lets me pre download the first few
| minutes of a video, so I can start watching it after 2-3 minutes
| and won't get annoyed by ad that plays within the buffered amount
| of time.
|
| Or an extension/program that silences, blacks out ads, and
| notifies me when the ad is over.
| tedunangst wrote:
| I imagine there's loads more to do on the JavaScript player
| that selects which video segments to download and play. They
| feed you a crap list of segments, then have the JavaScript skip
| past if it decides you're watching like they want.
| pompino wrote:
| It would be logical for them to fight tooth and nail on this as
| it puts their business model at risk.
|
| Personally, as much as I dislike Google, I'd rather everyone
| get off their youtube addiction, rather than use adblockers (or
| other similar circumvention methods. Their popularity (IMO)
| sends a strong signal to the platform owner that people value
| their content so they should keep fighting against such tools.
|
| The pressure Google puts on content creators forces them to
| skew greatly towards quantity not quality, and other terrible
| metrics like "engagement". Adblockers put further pressure on
| them to go out and personally find sponsors. IMO this makes the
| situation worse as they're focusing on not pissing off
| advertisers, and stay away from being opinionated, etc. All
| this probably won't affect established creators, but pushes
| everyone else to be vanilla.
| blackeyeblitzar wrote:
| People can build AIs that play the videos, extract the content,
| and replay it later.
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