Re:I Miss the Old Internet (2019)
by pixl97 on Sunday June 13, 2021 @09:13AM
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Say "thank you Google" for this one. This is how they decided to monetize the internet.
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"They" is a bit unfair here.
The sequence seems to have been something like: (1) Advertisers: "We'll pay you $2 for a video ad, $1 for an image ad, and $0.20 for a text ad." (2) Google: "We should find a way to create more video ad space."
Re:I Miss the Old Internet (2019)
by kwyjobojoe on Sunday June 13, 2021 @10:14AM
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Google changed YouTube monitisation so that videos had to be over a certain length to make money. Short to the point videos mean that the creator gets zip, so padding with unnecessary crap is the way to big bucks.
So it's totally, 100% Google's fault that there is a majority of pointlessly long videos on YouTube
Re:I Miss the Old Internet (2019)
by a1369209993 on Sunday June 13, 2021 @02:24PM
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> "They" is []a bit[] unfair here.
Was going to disagree that it's unfair, but I suppose it arguably is exactly one bit (or ~0.3 orders of magnitude) unfair, since the parties at fault are Google and advertisers jointly, and the parent mentions one out of the two. Not sure how to rigorize that measurement, though.