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Oh yeah, great idea! Let's pay YouTube/Google, so I can view "a note from todays sponsor" about VPN providers, PCB manufacturing services or some game item gamb
by martin_a 3y ago
Oh yeah, great idea! Let's pay YouTube/Google, so I can view "a note from todays sponsor" about VPN providers, PCB manufacturing services or some game item gambling site faster/more often.
- bananapub 3y agoAh, so you'd prefer that YouTube had draconian rules about the content of videos, forbidding anyone from mentioning anything they have a commercial involvement with? Sounds very reasonable and easy to enforce and uncontroversial, good point. If you're unhappy with the content of videos then complain to the people that made the video? Or don't watch it?
- martin_a 3y agoI'd very much like if gambling sites were not promoted to minors and there would be honesty about VPN providers and their talking points about anonimity and security, yes.
- bananapub 3y agoso...you want youtube to interfere with the content of videos even more than it does now? and require each video to be approved by a human before posting? that seems like a completely different and unrelated service to what YouTube does.
- martin_a 3y agoWell, it's up to YouTube to decide what to do, but they shouldn't tell me it's "ad-free" if the only change is that I only see one set of gambling ads and not two.
- taylodl 3y agoThey don't know what they want - we have some of the highest-paid people in the world here on HN who think content should just appear out of thin air for free. I'm so sick of this mindset that everybody else should work for free while I get paid a fortune for my work. Also, I can skip through a video that's doing a "word from their sponsor." I can't skip through I YouTube ad - YouTube determines how much I'm going to watch before I skip through.