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Re:YouTube is testing a more aggressive approach against ad ... by flangola7 on Friday June 30, 2023 @11:57AM (#36537298)
>what’s the alternative to ads then? How do you find new stuff that you might need?

How did it we accomplish it for the earlier 99.99% of human history?

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Re:YouTube is testing a more aggressive approach against ad ... by vikramkr on Friday June 30, 2023 @12:08PM (#36537520)
The earlier 99 percent of human history was pretty garbage. Ads are pretty garbage too but I really don't get why people keep doing this thing where they're like "well how did we manage in the past?" In the past we just died of war and disease and stuff. The past is awful.
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Re:YouTube is testing a more aggressive approach against ad ... by p_j_w on Friday June 30, 2023 @12:36PM (#36538035)
>The earlier 99 percent of human history was pretty garbage.

I don't think ads are what changed this.

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Re:YouTube is testing a more aggressive approach against ad ... by vikramkr on Friday June 30, 2023 @01:28PM (#36538860)
I'm not saying ads are good. I'm saying the comparison to the past is stupid and it doesn't help the case against ads.
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Re:YouTube is testing a more aggressive approach against ad ... by bee_rider on Friday June 30, 2023 @12:16PM (#36537662)
The past was awful for lots of reasons of course, but one was that we just weren’t very productive. We’re pretty productive nowadays. We could at least try a system where there’s enough stuff, but we find it naturally or by carefully weighing the pros and cons.
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Re:YouTube is testing a more aggressive approach against ad ... by pixl97 on Friday June 30, 2023 @01:29PM (#36538889)
>but we find it naturally or by carefully weighing the pros and cons.

This system doesn't make sense... the incentives for producers don't line up with reality. Producers are incentivized to find ways to break your rules and advertise as if they do it alone, they will profit massively.

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Re:YouTube is testing a more aggressive approach against ad ... by pixl97 on Friday June 30, 2023 @01:24PM (#36538805)
That's really kind of an ignorant statement...

I would speculate that if all ads disappeared right now, you would be without a job in mere days. Simply put economies work these days because people buy endless amounts of shit they don't need. The parts of our economies that provide necessities are minority factors today, as where you creep back over 150 years and 'needs' were the vast majority of work in an economy.

I'm definitely not saying we're in a good state currently, but breaking our current state without a state replacement plan isn't going to put us in a better position.

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Re:YouTube is testing a more aggressive approach against ad ... by ulrikrasmussen on Saturday July 01, 2023 @03:35AM (#36547691)
I call BS on that. People don't magically stop consuming just because they don't get ads shoved in their faces all the time. I block ads everywhere and haven't really seen an ad in years, but I still sometimes buy useless shit I don't need. It turns out search engines and price directories do a pretty good job of finding useless shit when you actively seek it out. As long as there is a demand for things, people will find it and buy it.
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