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I was only watching it because it was possible to block ads. Now they take it away, the value to me is less than my attention is worth. The product is worth 0

• jklinger410 3y ago
  > The product is worth 0 ads. I really doubt the acceptable number of ads on a really well-crafted video player and search engine sitting on top of a nearly infinite amount of content is zero.
  • baz00 3y ago
    Well it is only as valuable as its users feel it is.
    • I_Am_Nous 3y ago
      That's ostensibly what Youtube is, a big pile of users AKA consumers that Google promises to smartly match with relevant ads to improve the chances those consumers spend money with a company they saw an ad for. It fails to live up to this goal constantly, and seems to just barely check if an ad is relevant anymore. Google essentially holds creators hostage in this arrangement. Creators provide content the consumers want, but they only get paid well if the consumers don't skip the ads. So creators have to pander to what Youtube as a platform "seems to want" (thumbnails with :O face are so hot right now) in hopes that the algorithm will deliver videos to consumers who want them AND they are shown ads they don't immediately hate and skip. If any of those things fails to happen, they don't get paid as much as they should and it's not even their fault.
• mvdtnz 3y ago
  So don't watch.
  • baz00 3y ago
    That's the end game.