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YouTube premium is great - I wish I could pay for ad free Twitter. Being able to pay for a service without ads is worth it. Users complaining about a free ad

YouTube premium is great - I wish I could pay for ad free Twitter. Being able to pay for a service without ads is worth it. Users complaining about a free ad subsidized service come across as unreasonable to me (and maybe a little entitled).

domano 6y ago
I am happy with ads, but you probably have never been hit by a 30 min sponsored video at the beginning of a youtube video. The ads turn the whole watching experience into a remote-searching minigame. I'd much rather have unskippable, but reasonably long ads.
- renewiltord 6y ago
  How does this comment make sense as a reply? Obviously he has never been hit by one of those because he pays for Youtube and gets the ad free version. Same as me.
anoraca 6y ago
The real problem with that model, I think, is that the people who can afford to pay to opt out are the same people that are most valuable as ad recipients.
- fossuser 6y ago
  It's not really a problem when the model is to focus on making a great experience for paying users and just dumping ads on free users. The revenue generation focus and incentive alignment is with paying users not advertisers. If the ads don't make as much money or have a more limited audience that's fine. Obviously the entirety of Google is structured so this isn't the case, but in products I like better than Google products (Substack, Spotify, Apple) the focus is on paying customers. Ads, if they exist at all, are only on freemium versions of the product.
wldcordeiro 6y ago
The most annoying part to me about ads on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram is just how hard it's pushed. You get 1 piece of content in your feed before an ad. The ads always use rich media so they'll take up 2x the space of a typical tweet for example so you get 1 person's post, followed by 2/3rds of your screen taken for an ad. Let me see like 3-5 posts from accounts I care about you fucking vultures.
ajvs 6y ago
Nitter is great for avoiding ads.
ihuman 6y ago
Twitter doesn't include ads in their API, so all 3rd-party clients are ad-free (unless they include their own ads)

domano 6y ago

I am happy with ads, but you probably have never been hit by a 30 min sponsored video at the beginning of a youtube video. The ads turn the whole watching experience into a remote-searching minigame. I'd much rather have unskippable, but reasonably long ads.

renewiltord 6y ago
How does this comment make sense as a reply? Obviously he has never been hit by one of those because he pays for Youtube and gets the ad free version. Same as me.

anoraca 6y ago

The real problem with that model, I think, is that the people who can afford to pay to opt out are the same people that are most valuable as ad recipients.

fossuser 6y ago
It's not really a problem when the model is to focus on making a great experience for paying users and just dumping ads on free users. The revenue generation focus and incentive alignment is with paying users not advertisers. If the ads don't make as much money or have a more limited audience that's fine. Obviously the entirety of Google is structured so this isn't the case, but in products I like better than Google products (Substack, Spotify, Apple) the focus is on paying customers. Ads, if they exist at all, are only on freemium versions of the product.

wldcordeiro 6y ago

The most annoying part to me about ads on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram is just how hard it's pushed. You get 1 piece of content in your feed before an ad. The ads always use rich media so they'll take up 2x the space of a typical tweet for example so you get 1 person's post, followed by 2/3rds of your screen taken for an ad. Let me see like 3-5 posts from accounts I care about you fucking vultures.

ajvs 6y ago

Nitter is great for avoiding ads.

ihuman 6y ago

Twitter doesn't include ads in their API, so all 3rd-party clients are ad-free (unless they include their own ads)