[HN Gopher] YouTube's new ads will ruin the best part of a video...
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YouTube's new ads will ruin the best part of a video on purpose
Author : namanyayg
Score : 17 points
Date : 2025-05-18 21:31 UTC (1 hours ago)
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| rolph wrote:
| "If you're an advertiser, this might sound like a brilliant move.
| For viewers, it's pretty much the worst possible timing"
|
| associating your product with a negative experience is not a
| brilliant move.
| immibis wrote:
| Data proves otherwise.
| musicale wrote:
| Youtube (like every other popular web platform) will keep
| pushing the button that says "make more money by degrading the
| user experience" until it (eventually) stops working. It's
| basically the iron law of encrapification.
| DecentShoes wrote:
| They want to make it unusable without Premium. This will just get
| worse and worse until everyone gives in.
| Snoozus wrote:
| or until revenues drop because people either watch less or
| avoid buying from companies that pay money to ruin videos...
| immibis wrote:
| I remember when everyone was wishing they could just pay their
| own ad revenue in money and not have to see any ads.
| jkaplowitz wrote:
| Google actually offered something along those lines for a few
| years, called Google Contributor, though I don't think it
| applied to video ads like YouTube's.
|
| I have no inside info on why it didn't survive even though I
| worked for Google when it initially launched (not on
| Contributor), but the fact remains it didn't survive.
|
| As pure personal speculation, I suspect it didn't receive
| enough user uptake for Google to decide that it was worthwhile.
|
| To avoid any confusion: I don't work for Google now and am
| certainly not speaking for them in this comment.
| silisili wrote:
| You worked there and don't really know much about it. How in
| the world would Google expect anyone else to have known about
| it? I personally don't remember such a thing ever existing.
|
| So assuming they did try it, I'd say it died from lack of
| awareness rather than people just didn't want it.
| conartist6 wrote:
| If consumers don't own the tech they rely on, they should expect
| it to be weaponized to control them
| roskelld wrote:
| I've noticed on iPhone Youtube Premium I've had overlay ad
| widgets appear. I think they're for a creator's own merchandise,
| but I'm guessing that there's some sort of revenue mechanism for
| Youtube being happy to include these. To me it's still an ad and
| it's what I pay for to avoid seeing it.
|
| I wonder how long we'll go for before we start to see ad-lite
| Premium, and something like Premium+ to view ad free.
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