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Re:Alphabet announces Q3 2020 earnings by cobookman on Thursday October 29, 2020 @05:31PM (#24936180)
You still have ads with YT Premium. Most creators place multi-minute ads in their content.
Re:Alphabet announces Q3 2020 earnings by pengaru on Thursday October 29, 2020 @06:04PM (#24936640)
In case you haven't noticed, most youtube content is marketing something.

Sometimes it feels like the overt ads trivially overcome by adblockers or youtube-dl are there just to be something extremely obnoxious you can circumvent and feel relief from while still consuming marketing that is only made desirable by contrast.

Re:Alphabet announces Q3 2020 earnings by ByteJockey on Thursday October 29, 2020 @09:51PM (#24938265)
Is this a shot at the ads being the majority of the content these days, or are you just watching kinda shitty channels?
Re:Alphabet announces Q3 2020 earnings by Orphis on Thursday October 29, 2020 @07:50PM (#24937496)
They're quite easy to skip on most content. Some even put a "loading bar" to easily identify when it's going to end.
Re:Alphabet announces Q3 2020 earnings by d1zzy on Thursday October 29, 2020 @05:54PM (#24936533)
So the content creator has decided to insert their own ad inside their content resulting in a worse user experience (since you seem to be complaining about it). Should Youtube ban in-content third-party ads?
Re:Alphabet announces Q3 2020 earnings by cobookman on Thursday October 29, 2020 @06:25PM (#24936834)
I believe YT makes a cut of this ad rev. It's also much harder for ad blockers to block these kinds of ads.

So why would YT block it?

Re:Alphabet announces Q3 2020 earnings by halflings on Sunday November 01, 2020 @01:23PM (#24961358)
How would YouTube take a cut of this ad revenue? It's not disclosed anywhere on the YouTube platform.
Re:Alphabet announces Q3 2020 earnings by rajup on Thursday October 29, 2020 @05:39PM (#24936310)
I think you mean sponsored content which is not quite the same as ads/
Re:Alphabet announces Q3 2020 earnings by cobookman on Thursday October 29, 2020 @05:46PM (#24936445)
When you're watching a video and there's a ~1min segment on squarespace...etc, its an ad.