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I've been working on mainstream media content for broadcast and streaming services heavily for the last 10 years. I figured it was only a matter of time before
by imagetic 6y ago
I've been working on mainstream media content for broadcast and streaming services heavily for the last 10 years. I figured it was only a matter of time before they did something like this. At some point, the ad dollars and need to be profitable take control.
To be honest, I think this will go over very poorly. Once content becomes inundated with ads, we tend to just move on to something less intrusive. I'm not sure if views will drop, but there's a massive economy at stake here and media is a far more fragile ecosystem than most think.
- scoot_718 6y agoWhat ads?
- rasz 6y agoDont you worry, at some point google will switch to re-encoding every session in real time with hardcoded ads. Even today they dont care about cache-ability and their official player keeps refetching same data every time you decide to rewind more than 5 minutes, +video stream TTL is set to something like 60 minutes last time I checked. Btw Chrome will happily write that data (twice) as cache on your SSD, to never be used by anything ever again!
- conception 6y agoExcited for TiVo for YouTube