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No, this is nonsense. You cannot force someone to watch ads. Is it robbing video creators to mute an ad while it's playing? Is it robbing video creators to get
by kibwen 3y ago
No, this is nonsense. You cannot force someone to watch ads. Is it robbing video creators to mute an ad while it's playing? Is it robbing video creators to get up and grab a drink during an ad? If YouTube wants to monetize, then they can paywall their content, and more power to them. If I want to support a creator, I'll subscribe to their Patreon (and I do!). But my browser is a user agent operating on my behalf, running on a computer whose software I control, on a network whose traffic I control.
Suffering corporate brainwashing via ads is not some moral imperative, and I wish people would stop trying to pretend otherwise, especially on Hacker News, of all places.
- anonymousab 3y ago> Is it robbing video creators to mute an ad while it's playing? Is it robbing video creators to get up and grab a drink during an ad? There are many in the industry that would argue that it is, as would be "switching the channel" on a television. That's why you see a patent every couple of years for things like automatically pausing ads when they detect that a user's gaze is not on the ad, or pausing the ad and content altogether until the user confirms that they saw the ad by saying a keyword from it. There are a variety of reasons why these kinds of ad affirmation tools have not been employed yet, but it is just a matter of time until they are. There is simply too much money left on the table.